Archiv: Projekte

ExoEnhance investigates biomechanical enhancement in terms of expected physiological effectiveness, subjective bodily experience, social integration, and ethical legitimacy.

NeuroEnhance examines the opportunities, risks, and governance requirements of enhancement through non-medical neurotechnologies in the context of the workplace.

The aim of the PRIVETDIS project is to map and analyze the perspectives of persons with disabilities (PWD) regarding mental privacy and brain data protection and to integrate this understanding in the ethical and legal analysis regarding the multi-level regulation and governance of neurotechnologies.

The Saltus Group edits a book, that shall be published 2022, and comprises 28 chapters written by participants of the virtual conference “Global Perspectives on Responsible AI”. It will be available here.

AI-Trust is a project in the program “Verantwortliche Künstliche Intelligenz” (“Responsible Artificial Intelligence”) of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Foundation (Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung).

The Human-Technology Interaction Lab performs innovative research at the frontier of ethical, legal and social aspects of new and emerging sciences and technologies at the intersection of neuroscience, neurology, artificial intelligence and neurotechnology.

Together with colleagues from neuroscience, computer science, ethics, philosophy, law and other fields we work on developing guidelines and governance frameworks for the responsible collection, aggregation and use of brain data, particularly regarding data from consumer neurotechnology devices and applications.

We will conduct phenomenological interviews with patients that are or have been treated with neurotechnological devices, for example with deep brain stimulation (DBS) for neurological or psychiatric disorders or brain-computer interfaces for communication or other assistance.

Together with our colleague and FRIAS Research Fellow (2019-2020) Shelly Levy-Tzedek, head of the Cognition, Aging and Rehabilitation Lab at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, we explore fundamental philosophical concepts as well as ethical, legal and social aspects of human-robot interaction and cooperation, such as trust, agency and autonomy.

The overarching goal of DaDuHealth is to develop recommendations for the regulation of the access to and the use of health-related data. To do so, DaDuHealth analyses legal and ethical-conceptual framework conditions of data use.