Student Resources at TUM

Master and Bachelor Theses

Are you interested in writing your Master’s or Bachelor’s thesis about AI Ethics? The following chairs and professorships are currently looking for students for topics on AI and Responsible AI.

Making (Fake) New Friends: The ethical problematics of Human – Social Robots interactions and relationships

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Contact auxane.boch@tum.de or ieai@sot.tum.de if you are interested.

Towards Smart Cities: Ethical and Social issues in the development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence-powered technologies in urban contexts

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Contact catarina.fontes@tum.de or ieai@sot.tum.de if you are interested.

Understanding the Risks of AI-Systems: A Risk Management Approach

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Contact auxane.boch@tum.de or ieai@sot.tum.de if you are interested.

Understanding Risks: The Impact of Risk Perception on Trusts and Acceptability of AI-Systems

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Distributing Responsibility Depending on Risk Management Choices: The Users’ Perspective

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Assessment of Requirements and Challenges for the Responsibility Distribution in AI-based Systems from a Management Perspective

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Contact ellen.hohma@tum.de or ieai@sot.tum.de if you are interested.

Risk and Responsibility Distribution within AI Systems: A Comparison between different Use Cases

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Contact ellen.hohma@tum.de or ieai@sot.tum.de if you are interested.

Transparency and decision-visualization of a planning algorithm in the field of autonomous driving

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Contact rainer.trauth@tum.de if you are interested.

Explainability of a reinforcement learning (RL) planning algorithm in the field of autonomous driving

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Analysis of suitable methods for explaining artificial intelligence in the field of autonomous trajectory planning

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Implementation and Analysis of a Tool to adjust driving behavior of an autonomous vehicle

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Theses opportunities at the Chair of Cyber Trust (Prof. Grossklags).

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The Chair of International Relations is offering the opportunity to research for a master thesis project or research internship.

Theses opportunity:

Thesis or Research Internship: A Participatory Method for Work Algorithm Design

We are also looking for a Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d)

Contact Charlotte Unruh, at the Chair of International Relations for more information: charlotte.unruh@tum.de

The Ethics team of the Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (AI4EO) “Future Lab” is looking for a research assistant for a 6 to 12-month period.

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The Future Lab on Artificial Intelligence in Earth Observation is looking for a motivated Science Manager.

To find out more about the position, click here

Courses

Lectures and seminars Ethics and AI at TUM in WS2020 and SS2021.

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Title Department/ Chair Number Type SWS BA/MA WS/SS
Business Ethics in the Digital Age (MGTHN0066) Associate Professorship of Accounting (Prof. Stich) (TUM Campus Heilbronn) MGTHN0066S seminar 4 BA/MA SS
Cross-sectional lecture History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine 4191 lecture 2 BA/MA SS
Ethics for Nerds (INHN0030) Informatics Heilbronn 2 – Assistant Professorship of Computer Architecture & Operation Systems (Prof. Trinitis) 1404 seminar 2 BA/MA SS
What shall I do? Ethics for Engineers Chair of Vibro-Acoustics of Vehicles and Machines (Prof. Marburg) 0000004928 lecture 2 BA/MA SS
Law and Ethics of Digitalisation in Health Care Chair of Law and Security in Digital Transformation (Prof. Heckmann, Joint Appointment between TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and Department of Informatics) 1725 seminar 2 BA/MA SS
Master Seminar – E4N: Ethics in Natural Language Processing (IN2107, IN4428) Informatics 2 – Chair of Formal Languages, Compiler Construction, Software Construction (Prof. Seidl) 0000002673 seminar 2 MA SS
Introduction to Business Ethics (WI001058) (Part II of Module “Foundations of Entrepreneurial and Ethical Business”) Associate Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprises (Prof. Bird) (TUM Campus Heilbronn) WIHN1058VO lecture 2 BA/MA SS
(POL700450) Master Seminar Business Ethics Chair of Business Ethics (Prof. Lütge) 0000004990 seminar 2 MA SS
(POL700458) Master Seminar Business Ethics Chair of Business Ethics (Prof. Lütge) 777 seminar 2 MA SS
(POL700459) Master Seminar Business Ethics Chair of Business Ethics (Prof. Lütge) 240 seminar 2 MA SS
(POL70056) Case Studies on Business Ethics Chair of Business Ethics (Prof. Lütge) 863 seminar 2 MA SS
Project Seminar: Applied Ethics of Responsibility Department of Science, Technology and Society 3874 seminar 2 BA/MA SS
Title Department/Chair Number Type SWS BA/MA WS/SS
Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Engineering Chair of Automotive Technology (Prof. Lienkamp) 1661 lecture 2 BA/MA SS
Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Engineering – Exercise Chair of Automotive Technology (Prof. Lienkamp) 0000001653 exercise 1 BA/MA SS
Artificial Intelligence in Computational Mechanics Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation (Prof. Borrmann) 0000005740 lecture with integrated exercises 4 BA/MA SS
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Informatics 31 – Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine (Prof. Rückert) (Joint Appointment between Department of Medicine und Department of Informatics) 1963 lecture with integrated exercises 2 BA/MA/PhD SS
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine II (IN2408) Informatics 31 – Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine (Prof. Rückert) (Joint Appointment between Department of Medicine und Department of Informatics) 1993 lecture with integrated exercises 4 BA/MA/PhD SS
Digitalization in vocational education: artificial intelligence Chair of Education Science (Prof. Wittmann) 0000002173 seminar 2 BA/MA SS
Legal issues of the use of artificial intelligence Chair of Law and Security in Digital Transformation (Prof. Heckmann, Joint Appointment between TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and Department of Informatics) 1701 seminar 2 BA/MA SS
Master Seminar – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Trends in Robotics Assistant Professorship of Autonomous Aerial Systems (Prof. Ryll) 0000001985 seminar 2 MA SS

Other Opportunities

Schmidt Futures: Futures Forum on Learning: Tools Competition

The Futures Forum on Learning: Tools Competition (“Tools Competition”) invites teachers, students, researchers, technologists, and ed tech leaders to propose a tool, technology, platform, or research project that can accelerate recovery from COVID-19-related learning loss for students between grades K-12, and advance the field of learning engineering.

Schmidt Futures and Citadel Founder and CEO Ken Griffin are working together to help launch the competition with up to $2 million in awards.

Go to the webpage.