Team > Dr. Astrid Schomäcker

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Professorship for Philosophy, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

I am a postdoctoral researcher and project coordinator in the interdisciplinary research project FoGG (For the Greater Good? Deepfakes in Law Enforcement). My research examines the societal implications of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on explainability, transparency, fairness, and trust in AI systems. More recently, I have investigated the ethical, epistemic, and legal challenges posed by synthetic media and deepfakes.

Within the FoGG project, we study the impact of synthetic media on legal systems and explore the opportunities, risks, and societal implications of the use of deepfake technologies in law enforcement.

I studied philosophy in Berlin, Granada, and New York and received my Dr. phil. from Humboldt University Berlin. In my doctoral dissertation, I developed a response to the Hard Problem of Consciousness centred on processes of conceptual change. Since then, I have held research positions in the PAnalytics project and the Explainable Intelligent Systems (EIS) project, where I worked on questions concerning explainability, transparency, fairness, and human understanding of AI systems.

Faculty of Cultural Studies
Professorship for Philosophy, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Astrid Schomäcker
Postdoctoral researcher

Office:

Building Zapf 4, Room 4.4.11
Universität Bayreuth
Nürnberger Str. 38
D-95448 Bayreuth

Postal address:

Universität Bayreuth
Institut für Philosophie
D-95440 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0)921 55-4161
E-mail: astrid.schomaecker@uni-bayreuth.de

Office hours: by appointment