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Artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and the new geopolitics of security: Why technology assessment must engage in emerging military technologies

In his research article, Thomas Reinhold, from the Research Department of International Security and the Cluster Natural and Technical Science Arms Control (CNTR), examines the accelerating militarization of emerging technologies, particularly AI and semiconductors.

Read the full article #openaccess here:
➡️https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7248/12245

TATuP Apr 16

The fifth episode of “TATuP Talk - the Technology Assessment Podcast” is out now! ✨

This episode features Karen Kastenhofer, Astrid Schwarz, Krishna Ravi Srinivas, and Andrea Vetter, the guest researchers of TATuP Vol. 34, No. 3 (2025) "Are deeply sustainable technologies possible?".

The TATuP Talk is hosted by Leonie Seng, Academic Editor of TATuP.

➡️ Listen to the podcast here:
https://youtu.be/_UnI1tK5PQ4

➡️ Find all articles of the issue #openaccess here:
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/185

TATuP Apr 15

Does the TA community need to reflect on its role in assessing the impacts and repercussions of weapons technology?

The guest editors of the current special topic on future warfare, argue that TA cannot stand aside and ignore the challenges posed by rapid change in international relations.

Article "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly":
➡️ https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7305

Full issue "TA and future warfare":
➡️https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/186

#technologyassessment #warfare #dualuse @KIT_Karlsruhe

TATuP Mar 27

Military force or the threat thereof is increasingly shaping international relations – and technology plays a key role in this. The current TATuP Special topic examines how TA can address this development.

Read the full issue 35/1 (2026) "Technology assessment and future warfare":
➡️ https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/issue/view/186

Many thanks 🙏 to our special topic editors & to all the authors!

#technologyassessment #warfare, #dualuse @ITAS @KIT_Karlsruhe

TATuP Feb 24

Technology Assessment Feb 24

How do policymakers, scientists, and the public engage with technology assessments and how do they use them?

In the latest globalTA webinar Sarah Harvey and Karen L. Howard, Directors of Science and Technology Assessment at the US Government Accountability Office, presented approaches to assess the impact of their work and how these insights inhelp to better meet policymakers’ needs.

Webinar video:
▶ 🎥 https://youtu.be/co6YTmAOy-M?si=WBb9c6NEPzPRyJxr

#globalTA #TechnologyAssessment #TACommunity

TATuP Feb 19

Technology Assessment Feb 19

openTA, das Fachportal der deutschsprachigen Community der #Technikfolgenabschätzung, präsentiert sich ab sofort optisch und inhaltlich runderneuert.

Das ist neu:

💡 zielgruppenspezifische Einstiege

💡 Inhalte auf Englisch

💡 verständlicher Einstieg in die TA und zentrale TA-Methoden

💡 Links auf wichtige Datenbanken und Repositorien

💡 kuratierte Informationen zu aktuellen TA-Ergebnissen

💡 Orientierung zu Studien- und Promotionsmöglichkeiten.

➡️ https://openta.net/de/home

TATuP Feb 16

Technology Assessment Feb 16

Neue Professur für „Technikfolgenabschätzung und Technikgestaltung“ zu besetzen: Die W3-Universitätsprofessur am @KIT_Karlsruhe ist mit Leitungsaufgaben am ITAS verbunden.

Gesucht wird eine international ausgewiesene Persönlichkeit mit hervorragender Kompetenz in Forschung und Lehre.

Zur Stellenausschreibung:
https://www.pse.kit.edu/karriere/joboffer.php?id=165855

#FediHire #Technikfolgenabschatzung

TATuP Feb 11

📣 Call for Abstracts: „Generative AI at the workplace: Challenges and implications for knowledge-intensive work”

The Special topic of issue 36/1 (2027) is guest edited by Linda Nierling, Reinhard Heil, and Felix Gnisa from @ITAS / @KIT_Karlsruhe together with Britta Kirchhoff and and Ulrike Rösler from the Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA).

📅 Submit your abstract by 19 March 2026!

➡️ Further information: https://tatup.de/index.php/tatup/announcement/view/69

TATuP Jan 29

TATuP Interview: Technology, capitalism, and conviviality

In the current TATuP interview, researcher Mario Pansera explores the complex relationship between capitalism, sustainability, and technology. According to Pansera, true transformation requires democratic engagement and collective decision-making about the kind of society we want, with technology serving as a means – not the driver – of that vision. 🌿 👥

➡️ Read the full interview #openaccess here:
https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.7271

TATuP Jan 19

🌀 Toward deep assessments: On the possibility of decolonial digital technologies

Considering the coloniality of current digital tools and their increasingly massive global social and ecological impacts, Dorian Cavé and Rainer Rehak from @Weizenbaum_Institut explore the question of what socio-cultural assemblages can contribute to deep civilizational transformations.

➡️ Read the full article #openaccess here:
https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7227/12152