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The main problem is a lack of responsibility

Theresa Züger contextualises the call by several tech CEOs for a pause in AI development and argues why it is not speed that causes harm.

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What Anthropic’s Amodei could do about AI overkill

In the FAZ, Matthias C. Kettemann compares Dario Amodei’s call for an emergency stop with the UN Secretary-General’s report on global AI inequality.

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A Question of Context

According to a new HIIG whitepaper, how companies introduce generative AI and employees use it depends not on the technology itself, but on the professional field.

Digital Society Blog

Three human silhouettes are depicted mid-stride, each comprising of a collage of hardware used to develop AI including circuit boards and CPU chips. In the background there is a black and grey gradient with smoke. Beneath the runners from the left, there are two rectangle panels which run across the image, one is red and the other is blue.

Brave new world of work? Narratives on AI and the future of work

A. Dumat, G. v. Richthofen, S. Bohn on 17 September 2026
The photo shows the entrance area of an event: while people wait and an older man speaks at a standing lectern in an open space symbolising democracy without borders.

Democracy without borders? Global citizenship between platform power, AI and the crisis of knowledge

Matthias C. Kettemann, Karina Preiss on 31 August 2026
Playing cards on a table with a hidden ace, representing the high-stakes game of platform regulation under the Digital Services Act.

Cards on the table: Making sense of the Digital Services Act

Daniel Pothmann on 5 August 2026
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