Social Impact of AI
Module Description
| Course | Module Abbreviation | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|
| BA-2010 | AS-CL, AS-FL | 8 LP |
| BA-2010[100%|75%] | CS-CL | 6 LP |
| BA-2010[50%] | BS-CL | 6 LP |
| BA-2010[25%] | BS-AC, BS-FL | 4 LP |
| Master | SS-CL-TAC, SS-SC-FAL | 8 LP |
| Lecturer | Moritz Plenz |
| Module Type | Proseminar / Hauptseminar |
| Language | English |
| First Session | 14.10.2025 |
| Time and Place | Tuesday, 10:15 - 11:45, INF 327 / SR 2 |
| Commitment Period | tbd. |
Participants
All advanced CL Bachelor students and all CL master students. Students from MSc Data and Computer Science or MSc Scientific Computing with Field of Application Computational Linguistics are welcome after getting permission from the lecturer. MSc Scientific Computing students can only take the course as HS for 8 LP. If the seminar should be oversubscribed, CL students will have priority.
Prerequisites for Participation
Understanding of how Deep Learning, and Language Models in particular, work. This knowledge can be obtained for example from the Statistik / Formale Semantik / Neural Networks lectures.
Assessment
- Präsentation, Projekt, und / oder Klausur
- Mitarbeit
Contents
We interact with AI systems on a daily basis—whether we're intentionally chatting with a language model, scrolling through AI-curated social media feeds, or reading emails partially written by AI tools. Thus, AI tools may have considerable social impacts, which only become larger as AI becomes more powerful and more common.
In this seminar we want to discuss potential risks and benefits of today's and tomorrow's AI.
