COMING SOON! AI in Research: Predictive Practices!
Final conference of Research Group »How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science«
AI in Research: Predictive Practices
Final Conference of the »How is Artificial Intelligence Changing Science? Research in the Era of Learning Algorithms (HiAICS)« Research Group
University of Bonn, March 25–27, 2026
Over the past years, our transdisciplinary group HiAICS has examined how AI-based methods reshape scientific practice through infrastructures, data regimes, and predictive work. I’ve been part of this effort with Anna Echterhölter, Alexander Waibel, Jens Schröter, Markus Ramsauer and Fabian Retkowski. With our final conference, we close this project phase and invite a broader discussion across disciplines.
From March 25 to 27, 2026, we meet at the University of Bonn for »AI in Research: Predictive Practices«. The conference brings together 25 speakers from climatology, sociology, media studies, history of science, computer science, law, anthropology, economics, mathematics, philosophy, and the humanities to examine uncertainty, simulation, and the changing status of evidence in the age of learning algorithms.
We focus on predictive operations such as forecasting, modeling, and pattern recognition in concrete research settings. These practices reorganize methods, redistribute epistemic authority between researchers and computational systems, and shift validation standards. Across disciplines, uncertainties range from data quality and model assumptions to distribution shift. Simulated, augmented, and synthetic data increasingly shape training, validation, and inference—raising questions about how evidence is constituted under AI-driven conditions.
Keynotes: Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen), Alexander Waibel (KIT/CMU), Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn).
A panel on day 2 brings together Alexander Winkler, Christian Djefall, Gabriele Schabacher, Orit Halpern, Anne Dippel, and Christian Bauckhage.
Website: https://howisaichangingscience.eu/final-conference
Contact: contact.howisaichangingscience@gmail.com
Capacity is limited. Guests who are not registered as speakers are required to register by March 17: https://forms.gle/w3peFkQ1AsbeFVnx7
