#trustworthy-ai — Public Fediverse posts

🎙️ Artificial does not mean harmless.
In the einbiszwei podcast, Jessica Szczuka from RC Trust discusses AI-generated child sexual abuse material, potential real-world harm, and gaps in scientific evidence.
🧠 She also explains why the assumption that artificial content is harmless can obscure ethical responsibility.
🔗 https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/artificial-does-not-mean-harmless
#ChildProtection #TrustworthyAI #DigitalSafety

🌱 From RC Trust intern to PhD researcher.

During her RC Trust Internship, Nadya Hanaveriesa explored strategic reasoning in human-AI interaction with the HU[AM] group.

Several models appeared to misjudge how deeply humans would reason. In December, Nadya will return to Nils Köbis’ group as a PhD researcher.

🔗 https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/from-rc-trust-intern-to-phd-researcher

#TrustworthyAI #HumanAIInteraction #AIResearch #PhD

🤖 AI-as-a-Service can make work more efficient – but what happens to sensitive company data?

DAISY combines cybersecurity, psychology, practice & regulation to develop safer AI use in companies. RC Trust researchers Steffen Becker, Magdalena Wischnewski & Greta Ontrup contribute technical and human-centered perspectives.

The project receives €1.29M in BMFTR funding through August 2029.

🔗 https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/using-ai-safely-in-companies

#TrustworthyAI #DataProtection #AIaaS #RCTrust

The AI Governance Services Companies Actually Pay For

https://hernanhuwyler.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/the-ai-governance-services-companies-actually-pay-for/

🎓 A new chapter for Dr. Linara Adilova:
On October 1, she will join the University of Cologne as Professor of Machine Learning and build a new chair.
Her work on foundational and trustworthy machine learning will continue, alongside a new focus on AI for Science. 🧠🔬
Projects and collaborations with RC Trust, TU Dortmund, ELLIS, and Lamarr will also remain part of the story. 🤝
Congratulations, Linara! 🎉
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/a-professorship-shaped-by-trustworthy-ai
#MachineLearning #TrustworthyAI #AIforScience #AcademicCareer #RCTrust

🤖 Who should know, decide, and act when humans interact with AI?
At the RC Trust Graduate School, Tuğrulcan Elmas explored epistemic authority, relationship advice, and AI agents in education.
The core question: when should AI help, challenge, or step back – and when should humans stay in control?
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/when-should-ai-know-better-and-humans-stay-in-control
#HumanAIInteraction #TrustworthyAI #RCTrust

🤝 RC Trust at #MuC26
At Mensch und Computer 2026 in Duisburg, RC Trust researchers contributed on several levels: Giulia Barbareschi and Jonathan Liebers helped organize the conference, while Sven Mayer, Jatinder Singh and their teams contributed research across the program. Nils Köbis and Markus Pauly were also represented through co-authored work.
More on the conference and RC Trust contributions:
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/rc-trust-at-mensch-und-computer-2026
#HCI #HumanAIInteraction #TrustworthyAI

Welcome to RC Trust, Agathe Balayn!
As part of Jat Singh’s Compliant and Accountable Systems group, she studies how AI systems are built, evaluated, and governed in practice – from AI supply chains and evaluation routines to questions of trustworthy AI, policy, fairness, and transparency.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/studying-ai-in-practice
#RCTrust #TrustworthyAI #AIGovernance #HCI

https://www.europesays.com/ie/670018/ From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment | MIT News #AI #AIAgents #AramHarrow #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #AtariGames #Éire #FairAI #IE #Ireland #IreneKo #IsaacChuang #LucaDaniel #MITIBMComputingResearchLab #MITIBMWatsonAILab #PulkitAgrawal #QuantumMachineLearning #SrinivasanArunachalam #Technology #TrustworthyAI #VLLMHook #ZhangWeiHong

🔐 What does digital sovereignty require beyond secure infrastructure?
At the first Ruhr Innovation Lab Future Dialogue, RC Trust Scientific Director Nicole Krämer joined a cross-sector discussion on trust, control, and the human side of digital technologies.
Our perspective on the evening:
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/digital-sovereignty-is-also-a-question-of-trust
#DigitalSovereignty #TrustworthyAI #RCTrust
Photo: Simon Bierwald

Find the flaw breaking trust in your AI feature: A skill you can use immediately
We'll audit a real AI customer-service chatbot live, so you leave able to run the same audit on your own product.

https://maven.com/p/672643/find-the-flaw-breaking-trust-in-your-ai-feature?ajs_uid=207640

#TrustworthyAI #AIXDesign #TechWorkshop #Masto #CranfordTeague

Find the flaw breaking trust in your AI feature: How to spot the weakest link in trust
Why an AI feature that's great on four dimensions and broken on one is a broken feature, and how to find the break fast."

Get your FREE Ticket → https://maven.com/p/672643/find-the-flaw-breaking-trust-in-your-ai-feature?ajs_uid=207640

#AItrust #trustworthyAI #UXforAI #designthinking #Masto #CranfordTeague

🛠️The repair, not just the diagnosis — the specific fix for each kind of gap, demoed live on a real customer-service chatbot

Join LIVE on 21 August. RSVP here (it's free): https://maven.com/p/672643/find-the-flaw-breaking-trust-in-your-ai-feature?ajs_uid=207640

What AI feature do you use but not fully trust? Comment below — we might audit it live.

#AITrust #MavenLive #AIAudit #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

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NEW COHORT OPENS AUGUST 24th
Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

If you've been building products for a while, you already have a process that works. AI changes the material that process was built for. Your instincts still hold. Your tools need to catch up.

This course is where you build them.

Six weeks. One real project. A trust lens on every phase.

EXPLORE → https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#TrustworthyAI #AIUX #HumanCenteredAI #AIcourse #Masto #CranfordTeague

NEW COHORT OPENS AUGUST 24th
Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

If you've been building products for a while, you already have a process that works. AI changes the material that process was built for. Your instincts still hold. Your tools need to catch up.

This course is where you build them.

Six weeks. One real project. A trust lens on every phase.

EXPLORE → https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#TrustworthyAI #AIUX #HumanCenteredAI #AIcourse #Masto #CranfordTeague

NEW COHORT OPENS AUGUST 24th
Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

If you've been building products for a while, you already have a process that works. AI changes the material that process was built for. Your instincts still hold. Your tools need to catch up.

This course is where you build them.

Six weeks. One real project. A trust lens on every phase.

EXPLORE → https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#TrustworthyAI #AIUX #HumanCenteredAI #AIcourse #Masto #CranfordTeague

EC begins enforcement of AI Act transparency rules

The European Commission’s (EC) AI Office, in collaboration with national authorities, has begun enforcement of the AI Act.…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #AIOffice #AIsystems #Enforcement #nationalauthorities #TheEuropeanCommission #Transparency #trustworthyAI
https://www.europesays.com/europe/108509/

👋 RC Trust welcomes Marjolein Fokkema.
As Professor of Computational Statistics with Applications in Psychology at TU Dortmund University, she develops interpretable machine learning methods and works to make uncertainty more transparent in behavioral research.
🔗 https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/marjolein-fokkema-joins-rc-trust
#TrustworthyAI #MachineLearning #Statistics #Psychology
Photo: Julian Welz

Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

Lead AI-augmented projects end to end—from Discover to Deploy—with a repeatable, explainable method.

https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#DigitalTransformation #ExperienceDesign #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Communication is compression;
the listener’s assumptions are the decompression algorithm.

Read more → https://createmindfully.substack.com/p/a-sophisticated-assumption-making

#Communication #ArtificialIntelligence #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Communication is compression;
the listener’s assumptions are the decompression algorithm.

Read more → https://createmindfully.substack.com/p/a-sophisticated-assumption-making

#Communication #ArtificialIntelligence #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Communication is compression;
the listener’s assumptions are the decompression algorithm.

Read more → https://createmindfully.substack.com/p/a-sophisticated-assumption-making

#Communication #ArtificialIntelligence #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

Lead AI-augmented projects end to end—from Discover to Deploy—with a repeatable, explainable method.

https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#DigitalTransformation #ExperienceDesign #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

Setting purpose, boundaries, and guardrails—so AI stays a co-pilot, not a pilot, no matter which technology is under the hood"

Discover More → https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#TrustworthyAI #AIDesign #AIUX #Masto #CranfordTeague

Communication is compression;
the listener’s assumptions are the decompression algorithm.

Read more → https://createmindfully.substack.com/p/a-sophisticated-assumption-making

#Communication #ArtificialIntelligence #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

Lead AI-augmented projects end to end—from Discover to Deploy—with a repeatable, explainable method.

https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#DigitalTransformation #ExperienceDesign #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

Setting purpose, boundaries, and guardrails—so AI stays a co-pilot, not a pilot, no matter which technology is under the hood"

Discover More → https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#TrustworthyAI #AIDesign #AIUX #Masto #CranfordTeague

Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

The principles are technology-agnostic: they hold across conversational, generative, predictive, and embedded AI, and they'll still hold when the tool landscape shifts next quarter.

Get Started → https://maven.com/cranford-teague/trustworthy-ai-xd

#EthicalAI #TrustworthyAI #TechForGood #Masto #CranfordTeague

Communication is compression;
the listener’s assumptions are the decompression algorithm.

Read more → https://createmindfully.substack.com/p/a-sophisticated-assumption-making

#Communication #ArtificialIntelligence #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Communication is compression;
the listener’s assumptions are the decompression algorithm.

Read more → https://createmindfully.substack.com/p/a-sophisticated-assumption-making

#Communication #ArtificialIntelligence #TrustworthyAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

New #publication on Human–#AI Governance and digital sovereignty in the Basque healthcare system. #GenAI should augment—not replace—human expertise, supported by #LivingLabs and democratic data governance.

#OpenAccess https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5931987

#TrustworthyAI #DigitalHealth

A Very Sophisticated Assumption-Making Machine

"You'll hear LLMs (the true name of what we think of as artificial intelligence) called answer machines, reasoning machines, creativity machines. They're none of those things, and the names matter, because your mental model of a tool determines how you use it."

READ → https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sophisticated-assumption-making-machine-jason-cranford-teague-iysfe/

#TrustworthyAI #DesigningAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Masto #CranfordTeague

A Sophisticated Assumption-Making Machine

"Every compiler, every stylesheet, every command line gave you exactly what you specified and not one pixel more. We built entire disciplines around that fact — programming languages are, at bottom, grammars for leaving nothing to assumptions, because there was nothing on the other end that could make assumptions. The craft was explicitness."

READ → https://createmindfully.substack.com/cp/207956157

#AI #TrustworthyAI #TechEthics #Masto #CranfordTeague

👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Dr. Chris Köcher!
Chris joins Daniel Neider’s group as a Postdoc. His research focuses on automata, formal language theory & verification – and he will continue work on large language models, expressivity and verification. 🤖🔍
#TrustworthyAI #FormalMethods #Verification

👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Paul Fink!
Paul joins Daniel Neider’s group as a PhD student. His interests include formal methods, multi-agent systems, Algorithmic Game Theory, Epistemic Logic and strategic temporal logics. 🔍📐
#FormalMethods #TrustworthyAI #Verification

LG and UNESCO Globally Launch ‘AI Ethics MOOC Project’

SEOUL, South Korea, July 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LG AI Research and UNESCO officially launched the “AI Ethics…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #LG #AIdevelopment #AIresearch #AISeoulSummit #ethicalAI #ethicalprinciples #LGGroup #SouthKorea #trustworthyAI #UNESCO
https://www.europesays.com/korea/92482/

CLASS FOR CREATIVE TECHNOLOGISTS:
Designing Trustworthy AI Experiences

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lead AI-augmented projects end to end—from Discover to Deploy—with a repeatable, explainable method.

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#TrustworthyAI #AIDesign #AIethics #ExplainableAI #Masto #CranfordTeague

Causal discovery under skewed noise. 📊🔎
Daniel Klippert from Alexander Marx’s Causality group at RC Trust presents a poster at ICML 2026 in Seoul. 🎓
His work with Alexander Marx introduces SkewD, a method for causal discovery when real-world data does not follow neat, symmetric patterns. ⚙️🧠
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/causal-discovery-under-skewed-noise
#ICML2026 #Causality #MachineLearning #Statistics #TrustworthyAI

🤖🔍 Ruhr Fellow David Broczkowski has joined Daniel Neider’s group for a research internship on transformer verification.
He is exploring how AI models can be checked for reliable behaviour when their inputs change – while gaining experience in academic research and practising his German. 🇺🇸🇩🇪
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/testing-the-limits-of-todays-ai-models
#TrustworthyAI #FormalVerification #MachineLearning

🧪🤖 Can AI make chemical processes safer – and who checks the AI?
Daniel Neider contributes to the 2nd DFG funding phase of FOR 5359 on deep learning for sparse chemical process data.
His subproject focuses on formal verification of neural networks used for anomaly detection in safety-critical chemical processes. 🔍🛡️
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/checking-the-ai-that-checks-chemical-processes
#TrustworthyAI #MachineLearning #FormalVerification #ChemicalEngineering
Photo: © Schloss Dagstuhl – LZI GmbH, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

Learning from cause and consequence 🤖🔎
Gabin Agbalé, PhD student in Alexander Marx ’s Causality group at RC Trust, attended the Reinforcement Learning Summer School 2026 in Milan. 🇮🇹🎓
The program connected directly to his work on causal representation learning and offered space for feedback, exchange, and future collaborations. 🌍🤝
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/learning-from-cause-and-consequence
#ReinforcementLearning #Causality #ArtificialIntelligence #PhDLife #TrustworthyAI
Photo: RLSS 2026/ELLIS Unit Milan

📊 Uncertainty is not a flaw in data science. It is part of making data science trustworthy.
At RC Trust, Dr. Julian Rodemann gave a guest talk on “Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Inference Under Feedback Loops”.
The talk explored what happens when machine learning models do not only analyse the world, but also influence the data, behaviours, and systems they are meant to understand.
Read more: https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/uncertainty-is-not-a-flaw-but-part-of-trustworthiness
#TrustworthyAI

Research Explorer Ruhr 2026 brought three international early career researchers to RC Trust and into close exchange with their hosts at TU Dortmund University:
Minh Nguyen – Prof. Sven Mayer, Human-AI Interaction
Mohammad Nur Al Homsi – Prof. Daniel Neider, Verification and Formal Guarantees of Machine Learning
Raju Dey – Prof. Markus Pauly, Mathematical statistics and applications in industry
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/three-visits-three-routes-into-trustworthy-research
#ResearchExplorerRuhr #TUDortmund #TrustworthyAI
Photo: Marquard/RUB

Language models do not only generate text. They increasingly shape how information is found, classified, summarized, and protected.
At #ACL2026 in San Diego, researchers from #RCTrust contributed three papers and one workshop on privacy in NLP, generative web search, and multimodal industry classification.
The contributions involve Ivan Habernal, Bilal Zafar, and Elisabeth Kirsten.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/where-language-models-meet-their-blind-spots
#TrustworthyAI #Privacy #GenerativeAI #WebSearch #DataScience
Photo: Elisabeth Kirsten

🐛 How does a centipede know how to walk?
Dr. Linara Adilova uses this old dilemma to explain a central question of trustworthy AI: deep neural networks perform impressively – but do we understand why?
Her essay, written as a submission to the KlarText Prize for Science Communication, connects deep learning, generalization, information theory, and high-dimensional geometry. 🧠📐🤖
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/when-ai-cannot-explain-its-own-steps
#TrustworthyAI #DeepLearning #ScienceCommunication #KlarTextPreis
Illustration: AI-generated

AI can help researchers write, code, search and check results. But it can also hallucinate sources, obscure processes and challenge scientific trust. 🔍
At the RC Trust Graduate School, @JohannesBreuer discussed what this means for research in the social and behavioral sciences.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/when-the-production-of-science-speeds-up-means-for-ensuring-trust-must-catch-up
#TrustworthyAI #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #GraduateSchool #RCTrust

WHERE OTHERS LOSE CONTROL – WE STAY IN THE LOOP.

https://blog.infinito.nexus/blog/2026/06/16/where-others-lose-control-we-stay-in-the-loop/

ℹ️ More info: t1p.de/bv5sj See you in Berlin this September! #ResponsibleAI #AutonomousSystems #SummerSchool #BIFOLD #TUBerlin #TrustworthyAI

Summer School

🤖 Hidden instructions shape how AI chatbots behave.
Research from RC Trust by Anna Neumann, Yulu Pi & Jat Singh is featured in the Washington Post 📰
The article explores so-called system prompts and questions of transparency, bias & user control in generative AI.
https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/understanding-the-secret-commands-behind-ai
#AI #ResponsibleAI #TrustworthyAI

Last week at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, the CERTAIN Project hosted a technical workshop and presented at the SAINT Conference 2026.

Our focus: building trust directly into the ML pipeline.

As AI evolves, aligning with the EU AI Act and General Data Protection Regulation is a major challenge. CERTAIN tackles this by turning legal requirements into machine-readable processes.

🔗 https://certain-project.eu/certain-project-progresses-with-strategic-workshop-and-high-impact-presentation-at-saint-conference/

#AI #MLOps #TrustworthyAI #EUAIAct #CERTAINProject

Feel free to reach out if you’d like to connect and chat about these papers or our other work. See you in Barcelona!

#CHI2026 #HCI #AI #TrustworthyAI #SocialMedia #Journalism

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Authors: Federico Marcuzzi (INSAIT - Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology), Xuefei Ning (Tsinghua University), Roy Schwartz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Iryna Gurevych (UKP Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt and ATHENE Center).

See you at #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!

#UKPLab #NLProc #ResponsibleAI #Quantization #MLSafety #Fairness #TrustworthyAI #ModelCompression #LLMSafety #EthicalAI #NLP #AIResearch

Work by Nils Dycke & Iryna Gurevych (Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE)

See you at #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!

#UKPLab #LLMs #PeerReview #AIforScience #TrustworthyAI #NLP #Evaluation

🤖📊 How do biases in AI systems change over time?

In a new study in Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Meltem Aksoy (TU Dortmund University) analyzes thousands of responses generated by different versions of ChatGPT.

The results show: model updates can shift political tendencies – but recognizable patterns remain.

Together with Markus Pauly and the RC Trust, the research highlights why AI systems need continuous statistical monitoring.

#TrustworthyAI #Statistics #DataScience

#NLP #LLMs #MentalHealth #ClinicalNLP #DigitalHealth #ResponsibleAI #NLProc #AIevaluation #ModelEvaluation #TrustworthyAI #Safety #Equity #HumanCenteredAI

We are conducting research to better understand how people from diverse backgrounds perceive and experience Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everyday life, work, and society.

👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfV3T12Q0XGhJva8KaDae9eIt2PJ0X0rISwa4fH03JQzv-VKQ/viewform

All responses are anonymous and confidential.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Research #TrustworthyAI #DigitalTransformation

📄 New paper published/indexed in @scopus @ieee_bot #AgenticAI

“Anticipatory #AI Governance in Practice: #DataSovereignty, #UrbanAI & #TrustworthyAI #GenAI in the #BasqueCountry”

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11352770

#OpenAccess @ssrn : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5660050

#Science4Policy

🔍 We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (m/f/d) in Verification & Formal Methods at TU Dortmund University (Reliable AI Group).

While focused on formal guarantees, we also welcome applications in safe/secure ML and AI quality assurance. 🤖✨

📅 Deadline: March 10, 2026
📩 [email protected]

Join an international, collaborative research environment with access to strong infrastructure & GPU resources.

#Postdoc #FormalMethods #Verification #TrustworthyAI #AIResearch #MachineLearning