Ankündigung Workshop Autonomy & Algorithms
Date
11 June 2026 – 12 June 2026
Event
Workshop
Location
Room 145/146, Building 50.41, KIT, Karlsruhe
As algorithms become increasingly pervasive in shaping the choices we make, they put pressure on traditional assumptions about autonomy. The way algorithms filter and present information has a profound, and sometimes distorting, impact on human inquiry and decision-making. This shift is especially evident in fields such as risk assessment, predictive policing, and personalized advertising. The workshop aims to combine systematic and ethical perspectives to explore unresolved questions, such as:
• What does it mean to act and think autonomously in contexts mediated by algorithms?
• How do algorithmic environments affect inquiry?
• How does algorithmic influence differ from other forms of social or institutional influence?
• Who is responsible for the impact that algorithms have on our autonomy?
Participating Speakers
· Leonie Buschoff (TU Dortmund)
· Simona Chiodo (Politecnico di Milano)
· Keith Harris (University of Vienna)
· Joshua Habgood-Coote (Universität of Leeds)
· Alina Jacobs (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
· Margherita Mattioni
· Nicola Mößner (Aachen University of Technology)
· Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford)
· Otto Sahlgren (Tampere University)
· Christian Seidel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
The workshop will take place from 11 June 2026 to 12 June 2026 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
and is organized within the DFG-project »The Ethics of State Mass Surveillance.
Registration by email (office.seidel@itz.kit.edu) by June 5th 2026 required.