Teaching by the Ethics of AI group

This is the teaching program of the Ethics and Critical Theories of Artificial Intelligence research group at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück.

The lecture Introduction to the Ethics of AI was repeated in the winter terms 2021/22 and 2022/23 and will be given again in summer term 2024. The lecture is open to the public. Recordings are available here: [Recordings 2022/23]

My office consultation hours / Sprechstunde for students can be found here.

Winter Term 2023/24 (16 October 2023 – 2 February 2024)

  • 8.3102 Research colloquium ethics and critique in the digital society
    3 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 9–12  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3101 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
    Seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 14–16  Room: 50/E07  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3103 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Study Project]
    Study Project  6 hrs/week  12 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 14–17  Room: 50/E07  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team
  • 8.3104 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Begleitseminar]
    Interdisciplinary Course  4 hrs/week  6 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 14–17  Room: 50/E07  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team

Summer Term 2023 (11 April – 14 July)

  • 8.3583 Research colloquium ethics and critique in the digital society
    3 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 14–17  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3539 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Study Project]
    Study Project  6 hrs/week  12 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 9–12  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team
  • 8.354 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Interdisciplinary Seminar]
    Interdisciplinary Course  4 hrs/week  6 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 9–12  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team
  • 8.3586 An introduction to science and technology studies
    Intensive Course  4 hrs/week  6 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 10–12 + Wed. 14–16  Room: 93/E07  Format: in person
    Instructor: Nora Freya Lindemann
  • 8.3601 Critical perspectives on AI
    Seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 12–14  Room: 93/E12  Format: in person
    Instructor: Paul Schütze

Winter Term 2022/23

  • 8.3529 Introduction to the Ethics of AI
    Lecture with Exercises  4 hrs/week  6 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 10–12 + discussion group  Room: 11/212 (Schloss)  Format: hybrid recordings
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3548 What is Critique? A philosophical introduction
    Block seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Blockseminar 4. + 17.–20.10.2022 (full day)  Room: 50/E07  Format: in person
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Jan Siebold
  • 8.3539 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Study Project]
    Study Project  6 hrs/week  12 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 9–12  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team
  • 8.3539 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Interdisciplinary Seminar]
    Interdisciplinary Course  4 hrs/week  6 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 9–12  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team
  • 8.3536 Research Colloquium Ethics in the Digital Society
    3 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 14–17  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3567 Discrimination and AI
    Seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Thu. 14–16  Room: 93/E07  Format: in person
    Instructor: Nora Freya Lindemann
  • 8.3547 Capital, nature and the climate crisis: An overview
    Seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 10–12  Room: 66/E01  Format: in person
    Instructor: Paul Schütze

Summer Term 2022

  • 8.3539 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Study Project]
    Study Project  6 hrs/week  12 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 9–12  Room: 50/E07  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team
  • 8.354 Data Ethics Outreach Lab [Interdisciplinary Seminar]
    Interdisciplinary Course  4 hrs/week  6 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 9–12  Room: 50/E07  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff and Team
  • 8.3536 Research Colloquium Ethics in the Digital Society
    3 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Thu. 10–13  Room: tba.  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3542 The Ethics of 'Deathbots'
    Seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Wed. 14–16  Room: 32/106  Format: in person
    Instructor: Nora Freya Lindemann
  • 8.3541 Digital Capitalism, Big Data and AI
    Seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 14–16  Room: 92/E02  Format: in person
    Instructor: Paul Schütze

Winter Term 2021/22

  • 8.3529 Introduction to the Ethics of AI
    Lecture  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 10–12  Room: 01/B01  Format: hybrid recordings
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3527 Critical Philosophies of Subjectivity 1: Michel Foucault
    Seminar  2 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Mon. 14–16  Room: 69/E23  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff
  • 8.3528 Research Colloquium Ethics in the Digital Society
    3 hrs/week  4 ECTS points
    Time: Tue. 14–17  Room: 93/E09  Format: hybrid
    Instructor: Rainer Mühlhoff

Archive of older classes (Summer Term 2021 and earlier)

This information is available in German only.