Juliana Chueri Until recently, automation was mostly a concern for workers in factories or routine clerical jobs. The assumption was that knowledge workers — lawyers, journalists, analysts, academics — were largely insulated from technological displacement. Generative AI has unsettled that assumption. It can now perform tasks across a wide range…

Conrad Ziller, Aya Alali Universität Duisburg-Essen In den studierendenstärksten Studienfächern in Deutschland sind aktuell ca. eine Million Studierende verpflichtet, mindestens eine Prüfungsleistung in einem Statistikmodul zu erbringen[1]. Oftmals ist Statistik – milde ausgedrückt – nicht gerade das Lieblingsfach der Studierendenschaft. Das zeigen auch unsere eigenen Umfragen an der Universität Duisburg-Essen,…

Paul Gies Usually, we talk serious business on this blog: the rise of the far right, war, political violence, pandemics, distrust; all topics hardly palatable in today’s world of constant bad news and unpleasant social media feeds. Therefore, I decided to bring our readers a slightly less serious post today….