PhD position at RC Trust 🚀
Work on Mixed Ability Interaction 🤝♿
Design AI, VR & robotics systems for inclusive collaboration
🌍 International research environment
🎓 Real-world impact
🔗 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
#PhD #InclusiveAI #Accessibility
🤖 AI isn’t just a tool anymore.
RC Trust researcher Inês Terrucha is joining IAS Amsterdam 🇳🇱 to study how AI interactions shape social connection & well-being.
Does AI strengthen or replace human ties?
rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...
#TrustworthyAI #HumanAI
🥽🤖 Welcome to RC Trust, Manshul Belani!
She researches human-centered AI & XR – focusing on usability, accessibility, and trust.
How should we design tech that truly works for people? 💬
rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...
#HCI #ResponsibleAI
AI as a companion? 🤖💙
In „Unser Leben mit KI - Nie wieder einsam?“,
Paula Ebner explains why bonding with chatbots feels natural 🧠–and why we need critical awareness ⚖️
Tool or emotional substitute? 💭
👉 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...
#AI #AIEthics
📊🤖 Why do simple methods beat complex optimization?
At the AI Colloquium, Leonard Papenmeier explores high-dimensional Bayesian optimization–and why many benchmarks may be easier than they seem. 🔍
📅 Apr 16 | ⏰ 13:00
Infos here: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...
#AI #ML
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🗣️⚖️ Who gets heard in platform regulation?
Rachel Griffin & Mateus Correia de Carvalho explore how civil society shapes EU platform rules 🇪🇺 – and why some voices are left out.
Participation isn’t equal. Power, access & recognition matter.
🔗 dsa-observatory.eu/2026/02/17/w...
#DigitalGovernance
🏆 Award-winning research!
Prof. Giulia Barbareschi (RC Trust) receives Honorable Mention at #HRI2026 🎉
Her team developed a framework to improve transparency & reproducibility in human-robot interaction 🤖
🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#InclusiveAI #HRI
When AI joins a team, team dynamics change. 🤖👥
A new study by Dr. Greta Ontrup (shared first authorship) shows:
➡️ less cohesion in human-AI teams
➡️ weaker identification with AI
➡️ but stable psychological safety
AI isn’t simply “another teammate”–it reshapes team dynamics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1044...
🌍📊 Welcome to RC Trust, Jacob Grytzka!
At TU Dortmund, he works on interpretable climate models & uncertainty quantification–helping turn complex data into reliable insights for future decisions. 🌡️📈
#Environmetrics #ClimateScience #DataScience #RCTrust
Photo: Julian Welz
New global research network 🌍
“Enhancing Humanity” explores how AI, VR & robotics can support inclusive participation 🤖♿
Proud to see Prof. Giulia Barbareschi (RC Trust) involved.
Key question: Who does technology work for?
Learn more: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...
#InclusiveAI #HumanAugmentation
🤖 How much trust should we place in AI?
At the #AIWorkshop2026,
🧠 Prof. Nicole Krämer → calibrated trust
⚙️ Prof. Sven Mayer → humans + AI working better together
🚀 Research meets real-world work.
#TrustworthyAI #FutureOfWork
🤖🧠 Does ChatGPT have a “dark personality”?
A new study from RC Trust, the Lamarr Institute, and TU Dortmund University tested GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 using psychological questionnaires.
Result: mostly neutral behavior – but context and prompts can influence responses.
🔬 Rutinowski • Weber • Pauly
🤖🚗 How do we verify AI systems in the real world?
Prof. Daniel Neider (Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund) joined a Shonan Meeting 🇯🇵 on
LLM-guided synthesis, testing & verification of learning-enabled cyber-physical systems.
A key step toward trustworthy AI.
#TrustworthyAI #ReliableAI
🚀 PhD position in Reliable AI!
Join the Reliable AI Group at TU Dortmund to work on Temporal Logic Sketching for AI 🤖📐
💰 Fully funded (3 years)
🔬 Logic + Machine Learning
🌍 International research team
📩 Apply: jobs-reliable-ai@rc-trust.ai
⏳ Deadline: Mar 31, 2026
#PhD #ReliableAI #TrustworthyAI
Would you trust a chatbot to give you advice? 🤖💬
On 12 March, RC Trust Director Nicole Krämer joins a policy discussion at the NRW Ministry for Consumer Protection on how chatbots and AI agents affect everyday decisions and digital interactions.
#AI
Photo: Till Niermann – CC BY-SA 3.0 edited
Welcome to RC Trust 👋🤖
PhD researcher Aria Kalforian joined our Human-AI Interaction group in March 2026.
Her research explores how AI systems – including social media algorithms and LLM assistants – influence human behavior, emotions, and social dynamics.
#HumanAIInteraction #ResponsibleAI #HCI
Welcome to RC Trust 👋🤖
Dr. Jonathan Liebers joined our Human-AI Interaction group as a postdoctoral researcher on March 1, 2026.
His research explores Agentic AI and implicit interaction – how AI systems can anticipate users’ needs and support them proactively.
#AgenticAI #HCI #HumanAIInteraction
AI models evolve constantly 🤖🔄
But what happens to their biases over time?
A new study by Meltem Aksoy (TU Dortmund, RC Trust) analyzes thousands of ChatGPT responses across model updates.
Result: biases can shift – but don’t disappear.
Why continuous monitoring of AI matters 📊
#TrustworthyAI
Outstanding Reviewer Award goes to TU Dortmund University 🌍🏆
Prof. Alexander Marx received the AAAI 2026 Outstanding Program Committee Award – recognizing excellence in peer review.
42 out of 26,421 reviewers worldwide were selected.
#PeerReview #AAAI #AI
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Societal resilience in practice 🛡️
At a workshop hosted by GeKoB at Germany’s Federal Office for Civil Protection (BBK),
Oksana Huss (RC Trust) and Oleksandra Keudel (Kyiv School of Economics) connected Ukrainian resilience research 🇺🇦 with German crisis governance.
#Resilience #Security
New at RC Trust: Nancy Bou Kamel 🚀
Joining Prof. Giulia Barbareschi’s Inclusive Technology lab 🤖♿
She develops inclusive AI systems from low-latency speech recognition to scalable RAG pipelines ☁️
How do we keep AI accessible as it scales?
#InclusiveAI #MachineLearning #Accessibility
🚨 Viral video: Plane emergency landing on the A3 in Duisburg.
Reality? It never happened.
In a WDR interview, Bianca Nowak explains how AI-generated videos shape perception & trust 🤖🧠
How do you decide what’s real online?
#TrustworthyAI #MediaLiteracy #AI
Photo: Sebastian Meinken
🤖📡 Is information truly digital?
At the AI Colloquium, Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley) argues that objective observation may capture only part of physical reality – and that embodied interaction matters for AI. 🚲🌍
📅 March 5 | 13:00
#AI #CyberPhysicalSystems
Photo: Hesham Elsherif/TU Dortmund
300+ students visited TU Dortmund for the Day of #Statistics 📊✨
From sports analytics ⚽ to medicine 💊 and probability experiments 🚀 – statistics became tangible.
Co-organized by Markus Pauly, connecting education & trustworthy data science.
How did you discover statistics? 👇
Photo: Julia Welz
AI isn’t neutral 🤖⚖️
On 27 Feb 2026, DAGStat hosts “Data Ethics and AI” in Berlin 🇩🇪
Discussing fairness, transparency & statistical responsibility 📊
With Dr. Henrike Weinert (TU Dortmund).
⏳ Register by 20 Feb
📧 kontakt@dagstat.de
#DataEthics #TrustworthyAI #Statistics
Photo: DAGStat
New team member at RC Trust 👋🤖
Soumik Bhattacharjee joined our Human-AI Interaction group on Feb 1, 2026.
His focus:
💬 Conversational AI
🌍 Multilingual & culturally adaptive systems
👀 Multimodal interaction
How should AI handle code-mixed communication in global contexts?
#HumanAIInteraction #HCI
What happens when AI feels emotionally close? 🤖💬
On #SaferInternetDay 2026, Paula Ebner shared research on human–chatbot relationships–why attachment is understandable 🧠 and why critical awareness matters ⚖️
How should we shape digital intimacy?
Photo: klicksafe/Axel Heiter
