09.03.2026
Dedicated to "Women and AI: Shaping the Future between Potential and Risk", a national event took place on the occasion of International Women's Day.
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17.10.2025
A new special issue of Big Data & Society, co-edited by Prof. Jobin, examines how Artificial Intelligence becomes controversial and critically analyses the dynamics and implications of AI controversies.
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Continuing education
New one-day course: introduction to Artificial Intelligence
28.09.2025
Together with Prof. Cudré-Mauroux, Prof. Jobin has co-organized a one-day in understanding generative AI as a continuing education offer.
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New course offer
"Perspectives in AI Ethics" taught in the autumn semester
15.09.2025
A new interdisciplinary course/seminar focuses on critical AI studies and ethics, teaching insights from sociology, STS, and philosophy.
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New book
Digital Economy: Technical, Economic, and Social Foundations
20.02.2025
Anna Jobin, together with Lukas Staffler and Bernd Ebersberger, co-edited a handbook in German on the technical, economic, and social aspects of the digital economy.
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Artificial Intelligence
Interdisciplinary research project 'Performing AI' investigates artificial intelligence as a cultural phenomenon
14.11.2024
Researchers from the University of Fribourg, together with Swiss and Japanese university partners, are leading an international project to investigate AI in society, art, and science.
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AI & the law
Human-IST & the Chair of Private Law and Roman Law organize Summer Academy
19.07.2024
The Summer Academy ?AI & The Law? by the Swiss Study Foundation is taking place this summer from 31.08.2024 to 07.09.2024.
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AI and art
Interview by La Liberté
31.05.2024
Anna Jobin explains how AI works, and why its output should not be compared to artistic creation by humans.
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SACM 2024
Opening Keynote: When Media Comes To Matter
25.04.2024
Artificial Intelligence and the materiality of media
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