At re:publica 2026 in Berlin, Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt, Scientific Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), together with researchers from the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) and the Weizenbaum Institute, provides an evidence-based assessment of the public debate on a social media ban for young people.
For the t3n trend report “AI avatars are here – but are they here to stay?”, Jasmin Baake discusses in an interview the first live deployments of AI avatars in public authorities, companies, and universities, as well as the opportunities and challenges for user acceptance.
In a segment on Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Breitband program, Dr. Marco Wähner, research associate in the Research Data and Methods team at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), assesses the impact of digital platforms and algorithmic structures on political opinion-forming and public communication and discusses the challenges this poses for democratic public discourse.
Articles published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, RiffReporter, and heise online on December 4, 2025, present current studies on the persuasiveness of AI chatbots in a political context, which Prof. Hendrik Heuer, head of the CAIS research program “Designing Trustworthy AI,” classifies.
In a dpa article on the impact of algorithmic interventions in social media, Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt, Scientific Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), discusses a new study by Stanford University on political polarization on the platform X (formerly Twitter).
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