Chatbots increasingly recommend products, services or even financial advice. 🤖💬
On 12 March, Nicole Krämer, Scientific Director of RC Trust, joins a policy discussion at the NRW Ministry for Consumer Protection at the event
“Chatbot and AI Agent: (Not) a Friend and Helper?”
The panel will explore trust, transparency and risks in AI-driven communication.
#AI #TrustworthyAI #ConsumerProtection #DigitalPolicy #AIethics #HumanAI #RCTrust
Photo: Till Niermann – CC BY-SA 3.0 edited
👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Aria Kalforian! 🤖
Aria joined the Human-AI Interaction group in March 2026 as a PhD researcher.
Her work explores the human and societal impacts of AI-driven technologies – including conversational agents, social media algorithms, and large language model-based assistants.
Welcome to the team, Aria! 🚀
#HumanAIInteraction #ResponsibleAI #HCI #AIResearch #DigitalSociety #RCTrust #PhDLife
👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Dr. Jonathan Liebers! 🤖
Since March 1, 2026, Jonathan has joined the Human-AI Interaction group as a postdoctoral researcher.
His research focuses on Agentic AI and implicit interaction – exploring how intelligent systems can support users proactively and understand contextual needs without explicit commands.
We’re excited to have you on board! 🚀
#HumanAIInteraction #AgenticAI #HCI #AIResearch #AcademicLife #RCTrust #XR #MachineLearning
🛡️ Societal resilience in times of crisis.
At a workshop hosted by the Joint Competence Center for Civil Protection (GeKoB) at Germany’s Federal Office for Civil Protection (BBK),
Oksana Huss (RC Trust) and Oleksandra Keudel (Kyiv School of Economics) connected Ukrainian empirical research 🇺🇦 with German crisis governance practice.
Resilience means coordination, learning, and adaptive institutions.
#SocietalResilience #SecurityPolicy #Governance #DigitalTrust #RCTRust
🚀 Welcome Nancy Bou Kamel to RC Trust!
Nancy joins the Chair of Inclusive Technology and Collective Engagement, led by Prof. Giulia Barbareschi 🤖♿
She builds inclusive AI systems – from low-latency speech recognition 🗣️ to scalable RAG & LLM architectures ☁️
Her goal: AI that is accessible by design and robust in real-world contexts.
How can we embed inclusion into AI from the start?
#InclusiveAI #Accessibility #MachineLearning #WomenInTech #RCTrust
🚨 A viral video showed a plane emergency landing on the A3 in Duisburg.
It never happened. The footage was AI-generated.
In a WDR interview, Bianca Nowak explains how synthetic media influences perception, credibility & public discourse 🤖🧠
At RC Trust, we study how people understand and evaluate AI.
How do you assess whether content is real?
#TrustworthyAI #AIethics #MediaLiteracy #ScienceCommunication #RCTRust
Photo: Sebastian Meinken
👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Iheb Dridi! 🎉
Since January 2026, Iheb has been supporting our research as a technical research assistant while completing his Master’s studies in Computer Engineering 💻🧠
His work contributes to making algorithmic systems more transparent, understandable, and trustworthy.
What do you think builds trust in AI?
🎓 New team member at RC Trust: Welcome, Dorina Rohse!
Since January 2026, Dorina has been part of the Chair of Inclusive Technology and Collective Engagement. As a research assistant, she researches how Virtual Reality can support inclusive education – developing and testing VR applications for school contexts 🥽📚
She also offers workshops on VR & inclusion, bridging research, practice, and outreach.
#InclusiveEducation #VirtualReality #Accessibility #RCTrust #ParticipatoryResearch
Disinformation is not just about false facts – it’s about psychological effects. 🧠⚠️
At Fact Check Thailand 2026 in Bangkok 🇹🇭, Professor Nicole Krämer (University of Duisburg-Essen) delivered a keynote on “Psychological mechanisms of disinformation effects”, invited by the German Embassy in Thailand.
The event honoured those actively fighting disinformation and highlighted its relevance for Thailand’s 2026 elections. 🗳️🌍
#FactCheckThailand2026 #Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #RCTrust #Research
✨ Prof. Elizabeth Tipton (Northwestern University) visited the RC Trust Graduate School with her inspiring talk “Developing Trustworthy Evidence: From Science to Policymaking.”
She called on researchers to design studies that represent real people and to make evidence truly useful for decision-makers. 🌍
📖 Read our recap: https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/doing-the-right-thing-how-science-can-build-trustworthy-evidence-for-policymaking
Photo: Julian Welz/TU Dortmund
#RCTrust #GraduateSchool #EvidenceBasedPolicy #ResearchCollaboration #DataScience #Statistics
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