Ethical Innovation Letter 01/2022

Welcome to a new issue of the Ethical Innovation Letter, dear reader!

There has been a lot going on at the Ethical Innovation Hub. For instance, we have now switched to using beehiiv for managing our Ethical Innovation Letter. Notably, this now also allows you, to manage your subscription yourself. Simply scroll to the bottom of this email to manage your preferences. You can also follow us in several ways.

You may have also noticed that we skipped our end-of-term letter in March. To be quite honest, there was just too much going on, while some things were still in progress and we didn't feel like announcing them yet.

Below is everything, you might want to know.

New Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture Series

We have an exciting program for our upcoming Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture (VEIL) series. Please click below to register for any of these talks!

This is the schedule for the upcoming winter term 22/23.

• Mark Bishop: "Al is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will not fix it”, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Nov 8, 2022

• Pak-Hang Wong: "Insights From Supporting Responsible Al in a Business Context”, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Dec 13, 2022 (UTC+02:00)

• Bernd C. Stahl: "Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future - An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of Al”, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Jan 17, 2023 (UTC+02:00)

• Larissa Bolte: "From an Ethics of Carefulness to an Ethics of Desirability: Going Beyond Current Ethics Approaches”, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Feb 7, 2023 (UTC+02:00)

Ethical Innovation Hub @ #WocheDerKI

The Ethical Innovation Hub was part of the impressive line-up of exhibitors at this year's #WocheDerKI (Week of AI) featured in Lübeck's Music and Congress Hall. We offered a little analog survey to break the ice and get in contact with us. If all goes well, we'll inform you about the results soon!

#LübeckHoch3 Lecture Series – "Werte Technik / Technikwerte"

During the summer term, we had three events with lectures by prolific speakers held at St. Petri. The events each revolved around the subjects of the "climate", "body" and "culture". In German, this reads as "Klima", "Körper" and "Kultur". We have captured all of the lectures and performances on video for you to rewatch or catch up with, if you missed one of the events.

This was the line-up:

Klima

• Prof. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (Climate Ethics, University of Lübeck)

• Prof. Maximilian Schüler (Environmental Science, Technische Hochschule Lübeck)

Körper

• Prof. Lisa Malich (Ethics of Psychology, University of Lübeck)

• Prof. Cornelius Borck (History of Medicine, University of Lübeck)

• Prof. Achim Rody (Gynaecology, University Hospital Lübeck)

• A panel discussion with all of the above, plus Julia Minninger and Elisabeth Unrauh (students of the Midwifery Science program at the University of Lübeck)

Kultur

• Jana de Troyer and Prof. Sascha Lino Lemke (Composition, "Exquise esquisse saxophonique/électrique", Musikhochschule Lübeck)

• Dr. Marlene Meuer (Literature, Leuphana, Luneburg)

• Prof. Nicola Hein (Digital Creations, "Tertiary Protentions", Musikhochschule Lübeck)

New Research Project "SERAI"

The Ethical Innovation Hub was successful with a proposal submitted to the grant program for research on artificial intelligence in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. In the project entitled "Systems Engineering for Ethical Requirements in Artificial Intelligence", Bastian Kabuth and Christian Herzog will be investigating when and how ethical requirements can and should be formulated in systems engineering-based product and service development.

Dirk Schrödter handed over the grant notice of about 350.000 € at an event hosted by the Fraunhofer IMTE.

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Publications

For the very last bit, we'd like to point you towards a range of publications that have been written and published by members of the Ethical Innovation Hub in 2022. Here, we provide a list with links, if possible, in case, you might want to read up on them!

• Breyer, S., & Herzog, C. (2022). Integrating Ethical Considerations Into Innovation Design. In M. Friebe (Ed.), Novel Innovation Design for the Future of Health. Springer. 978-3-031-08190-3

• Herzog, C. (2022). Inexplicable AI in Medicine as a Form of Epistemic Oppression. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Hong Kong. (to be published on http://ieeexplore.ieee.org)

• Herzog, C. (2022). Is Algorithmic Personalized Pricing Unjust? IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Hong Kong. (to be published on http://ieeexplore.ieee.org)

• Herzog, C., Leinweber, N.-A., Engelhard, S., & Engelhard, L. (2022). Autonomous Ferries and Cargo Ships: Discovering Ethical Issues via a Challenge-Based Learning Approach in Higher Education. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Hong Kong. (to be published on http://ieeexplore.ieee.org)

• Herzog, C. (2022). On the Ethical and Epistemological Utility of Explicable AI in Medicine. Philosophy & Technology, 35(50), 31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00546-y

• Herzog, C., Breyer, S., Leinweber, N.-A., Preiß, R., Sonar, A., & Bombaerts, G. (2022). Everything you Want to Know and Never Dared to ask – A Practical Approach to Employing Challenge-Based Learning in Engineering Ethics. SEFI Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

• Herzog, C., & Diebel-Fischer, H. (2022). Teaching Ethics Through the Back Door? – Employing Ideas From Assemblage Theory to Foster a Responsible Innovation Mindset. SEFI Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

• Herzog, C., Vollmer, F., Gruner, J., & Rostalski, P. (2022). Teaching Estimation and Control via Probabilistic Graphical Models – An Intuitive and Problem-Based Approach. IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education 2022, Hamburg, Germany. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896322015166

• Herzog, C., & Zetti, D. (2022). Digitally Aided Sovereignty – A Suitable Guide for the e-Government Transformation? Practicing Sovereignty. Weizenbaum Conference, Berlin, Germany. (Watch https://www.weizenbaum-conference.de for the proceedings to be published soon)

• Martin, D., Herzog, C., Papageorgiou, K., & Bombaerts, G. (2022). Three European experiences of co-creating ethical solutions to real-world problems through Challenge Based Learning. In Emerald Handbook on Challenge-Based Learning. https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/the-emerald-handbook-of-challenge-based-learning/?k=9781801174916

• Petersen, E., Potdevin, Y., Mohammadi, E., Zidowitz, S., Breyer, S., Nowotka, D., Henn, S., Pechmann, L., Leucker, M., Rostalski, P., & Herzog, C. (2022). Responsible and Regulatory Conform Machine Learning for Medicine: A Survey of Challenges and Solutions. IEEE Access. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3178382

• Sonar, A., & Herzog, C. (2022a). Creating a future with algorithmic partners – A preliminary proposal for constitutive features for a ‘cooperative and communicative’ AI. Politics of Technoscientific Futures. EASST 2022, Madrid, Spain.

• Wessel, D., Claudy, S., Hanke, K., Herzog, C., Preiß, R., Wegener, C., & Heine, M. (2022b). Prototypes for E-government Websites to support the Digital Sovereignty of Citizens. Mensch Und Computer. Mensch und Computer, Darmstadt, Germany.