Research University of Luxembourg Institute for Digital Ethics (ULIDE)

Research

Our main activities include externally and internally funded, commissioned, and basic research projects. Current research topics include the social impact of recommendation systems , the influence of artificial intelligence on the public sphere, the cultural history of AI applications such as ChatGPT, and media education in the post-digital age.

Working areas

ULIDE consists of an interdisciplinary core team representing different areas of expertise within the broader field of digital studies:

  • Digital Ethics

    Issues of digital ethics are initially a matter of philosophy. The ULIDE team addresses fundamental questions of responsibility and agency in digital environments, identifying ethical dilemmas and possible trade-offs for a variety of situations.

  • Digital Law and Regulation

    Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence are already subject to a range of national and international regulations. However, these are constantly changing. ULIDE therefore has legal expertise on which to develop specific policy proposals.

  • Digital Democracy

    Digitalisation opens up a new dimension of the public sphere, but also provides an environment for efforts that threaten democracy. Questions of participation, but also of polarisation and populism, are at the centre of ULIDE’s work, which integrates political and social science perspectives to address these issues.

  • Digital Culture

    As cultural production is transformed by digital technologies, art and literature reflect these changes. As a central element of ULIDE, the humanities contribute to a better understanding of the history and social impact of digitalisation, and to an exploration of the limits of human agency and freedom.

  • Digital Literacy

    Dealing successfully with digitalisation begins at school. ULIDE investigates the influence of technology on different aspects of education and develops new concepts of digital literacy.

  • Computational Ethics

    None of the above perspectives can produce valid results if they are not in dialogue with computer science. Computational ethics is concerned with the concrete algorithmic implementation of ethical concepts, principles and interventions.

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