Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung
Ich unterrichte für unseren M.A. Digitale Transformation einen Kurs namens "Seminar Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung", der (mir zumindest) viel Spaß macht. Hier haben die Studis die Aufgabe, eine Seminararbeit zu einem vorgegebenen Thema zu schreiben oder selbst eines zu wählen. …
How is your digital mindset?
Digital firms have quietly gone about setting their own rules for how businesses should be run (see e.g. How Google Works by Schmidt & Rosenberg, 2014) – a good few of those now apply to organizations way beyond the digital …
A Critical Stance on AI
I was invited to give a keynote at the iSChannel 20th Anniversary celebration at my old university, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, last week. Here's my written version of the talk. It’s great to be here today! …
„Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus“
Elon Musk und Donald Trump kündigen massenhaft Verwaltungsmitarbeitern, um einen KI-Staat zu errichten. Gleichzeitig dreht sich ein Großteil des öffentlichen Diskurses in Deutschland nur um die Chancen der KI, die man nutzen müsse, um nicht (z.B. gegenüber China) ins Hintertreffen …
All LLMs hallucinate – Here’s how you can still trust them
Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT are here to stay, as recently confirmed by an OpenAI blogpost. But how do they affect users' trust and the way users interact with LLMs? In a recent paper (Ryser et al. …
Will we all own autonomous cars soon?
The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Autonomous driving has been the next big thing for at least 10 years, and by now, there are successful implementations in several places. But how will it play out in …
Preprint: Wie kann die digitale Transformation Predictive Maintenance unterstützen?
Kollegen von mir haben einen Sammelband zum Thema "Predictive Maintenance" veröffentlicht, und ich freue mich, dass mein Beitrag angenommen wurde. Über die Ideen darin habe ich schon geschrieben – hier ist jetzt der Beitrag als Preprint: Preprint-Predictive Maintenance AllweinHerunterladen Allwein, …
Plurality: An open approach to democracy and technology
I spent a good few weeks reading and trying to grok a book, Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy, by E. Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang and their community. I knew about Audrey Tang as she has been …
No more Google (for now)!
Who would have thought? After religiously using it for around 25 years1 (and working there for 6), I stopped using Google as my default search engine for now. What happened? There have been on-going complaints about the declining quality of …
Turning the facts of the world into data, information… and decisions
A new way to conceptualize data and information can give insights into what happens when we digitalize business processes – starting from the facts of the world and considering how they can be turned into data and information. While technological …