Center for Responsible AI Technologies founded

Cooperation founded ( from left to right ): Munich School of Philosophy President Johannes Wallacher, University of Augsburg President Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, Technical University of Munich Vicepresident Gerhard Kramer Image: Andreas Heddergott / TUM - By today's signing of their cooperation agreement, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Augsburg (UNIA) and the Munich School of Philosophy (HFPH) have laid the foundation stone for the joint "Center for Responsible AI Technologies", which will bring philosophical, ethical and social science issues into the development of AI technologies in an integrated approach to research. Supported by three newly created professorships at UNIA, TUM and HFPH and financed by "Hightech Agenda Bayern", the new cross-location center will make a valuable contribution to socially responsible and trustworthy AI innovations. With the "Center for Responsible AI Technologies", the participating universities are significantly expanding their existing interdisciplinary cooperation between natural sciences and technology, human and social sciences and philosophy. The pilot project will be launched in the first quarter of 2022. The work of the center will therefore initially focus on the field of application "medicine, care, health". This research project will identify comparative central philosophical and ethical questions on the basis of use cases for the application of AI in laser therapy for basal cell carcinomas, in endoscopy and in radiology.