In a segment on Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Breitband program, Dr. Marco Wähner, research associate in the Research Data and Methods team at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), assesses the impact of digital platforms and algorithmic structures on political opinion-forming and public communication and discusses the challenges this poses for democratic public discourse.
Articles published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, RiffReporter, and heise online on December 4, 2025, present current studies on the persuasiveness of AI chatbots in a political context, which Prof. Hendrik Heuer, head of the CAIS research program “Designing Trustworthy AI,” classifies.
In a dpa article on the impact of algorithmic interventions in social media, Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt, Scientific Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), discusses a new study by Stanford University on political polarization on the platform X (formerly Twitter).
Tagesspiegel Background publishes a portrait of Prof. Hendrik Heuer, head of the CAIS research program “Designing Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.” It addresses the question of whether and how users can build trust in AI systems and focuses on Hendrik Heuer’s personal career.
The software company OpenAI recently released the fifth generation of its AI software ChatGPT. The reactions have been controversial. In the Deutschlandfunk Kultur program Breitband on ChatGPT-5, Hendrik Heuer (CAIS) assesses the role played by trust in AI models and emotional attachments, and what OpenAI can learn from the field of human-computer interaction research for responsible design.
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