New team member
SAIS welcomes Dr Loïc Riom as Senior Researcher
03.09.2026
Dr Loïc Riom joins the Institute Human-IST as Senior Researcher in the research group SAIS, where he will contribute to the SNSF-funded project “Performing AI".
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Research Publication
New peer-reviewed publication investigates Artificial Intelligence as an interdisciplinary phenomenon
28.06.2026
The first consortium-wide publication of the Performing AI project investigates Artificial Intelligence as a social and cultural phenomenon, bringing together perspectives from the social, natural and…
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New team member
Fandi Putra joins Human-IST
06.04.2026
Fandi Putra recently joined SAIS as a doctoral student working on AI governance under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Anna Jobin.
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04.03.2026
Call for papers for a 4S 2026 panel in Toronto on “AI as a performative phenomenon,” inviting abstracts by 30 April 2026.
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New paper with IJoC
How was Chat GPT hyped into being?
25.02.2026
Remember late 2022? Society was in a frenzy when Open AI's Chat GPT was released. How did the event turn into a hype that is ongoing?
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Research Achievement
Paper accepted at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026
09.02.2026
Dr. Marisa Tschopp co-authored “Beyond Disposition: AI Knowledge Predicts Anthropomorphization of a Language Model Better Than Personality Traits in Lay and Expert Populations”.
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New conference papers
Three contributions at Conversations 2025
13.11.2025
Three peer reviewed research papers about GenAI methodology and synthetic relationships were presented.
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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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New team member
Maria Couto Teixeira at Human-IST
14.09.2025
We are welcoming Maria Couto Teixeira as a student assistant in the SNSF project "Performing AI".
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