On Feb. 23, 2021, Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß and Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner gave a webinar on "The Future of Knowledge Work - Hybridization of Human and Artificial Intelligence."  

The webinar is part of theAI Camp, a project of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and theGesellschaft für Informatik e. V.which will bring together AI talents up to 35 years of age with renowned AI experts from all over the world in Berlin and in the digital space on April 27, 2021. In interactive fishbowl discussions, debating sessions and hands-on workshops, the free science convention addresses transdisciplinary future issues from the fields of society, sustainability, production, science, health, mobility, art and media.  

Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß and Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner addressed the question of how the collaboration of humans and AI-based work systems can function in current and future knowledge work and what the foundations for this are with the more than 70 participants of the webinar. To this end, the junior research group leaders of the HyMeKIresearch group (www.hymeki.de) discussed current challenges and design approaches for collaborative cooperation between humans and AI-based work systems in knowledge work, using the HyMeKI and INSTANT research projects as examples. Here, they emphasized the particular importance of mutual learning betweenhumans and AI (human-in-the-loop, machine-in-the-loop) in work processes as well as a use of complementary strengths of humans and AI in the form of hybrid collaboration practices.  

For those interested, the full webinar is here to watch it again.  

Speakers:  

Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß(AI junior research group leader HyMeKI at the FG Business Informatics, University of Kassel & Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG).  

Prof. Dr. Eva Bittner(Professor of Information Systems & AI junior group leader HyMeKI, University of Hamburg)