The many advantages and new possibilities of digitalization are increasingly accompanied by unclear responsibilities, a lack of accountability, and growing power to digital tech firms. Meeting the new challenges and threats that come along with digital interconnectivity requires a multifaceted approach that addresses both technical vulnerabilities and human factors. By bringing together experts from diverse fields, an interdisciplinary approach enables a comprehensive understanding of the current and developing challenges – and helps to develop holistic solutions that address technical, human, legal, and ethical aspects.
Recent technological advances such as deepfakes (the hyperrealistic imitation of audio-visual content) but also ever more powerful Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT or LLaMa) pose new risks. Namely, using such technologies enables new forms of manipulation, deception, and fraud. The consequences of such attacks range from the societal level such as manipulation of democratic processes, to the individual level where people might reveal sensitive information, or transfer data or money to attackers.
The summer school “Taming the risks of digital technologies - interdisciplinary collaboration for a trustworthy future” will bring together researchers working in the field of manipulative technologies. It will bring together scholars from various disciplines including IT security research, computer science, communication science, psychology, economics and more. The summer school will feature keynotes, hands-on workshops highlighting the risks but also providing insights into concrete countermeasures to manipulative tech.
Date: 29 – 31 July 2024
Place: Beckmanns Hof, Ruhr University Bochum
Open for: PhDs and Postdocs as well as PIs from the discipline of IT security or related areas of research
The summer school is hosted by SecHuman and the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security.
Registration for the Summer School will open here in April 2024: https://sechuman.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/newsarchiv/sechuman/save-the-date-summer-school-2024
Graduate School SecHuman
The graduate school “Security for Humans in Cyberspace” (SecHuman) has been working with an innovative interdisciplinary approach in IT security research since 2016. Beyond addressing technological aspects, the program aims to explore the implications and effects on individuals, society, and culture stemming from IT security issues.
Research Center “Trustworthy Data Science and Security”
The Research Center “Trustworthy Data Science and Security” addresses the trustworthiness of intelligent systems in safety-critical applications. A unique, human-centered research approach covers the entire interdisciplinary research of trustworthy data analytics, explainable machine learning, and privacy-aware algorithms.
General note: In case of using gender-assigning attributes we include all those who consider themselves in this gender regardless of their own biological sex.