Yeah, thank you, Swen, for this warm welcome. And at first, I have to apologize that I can't

provide such an exquisite and decent accent, Swen. So you have to live with my rather German-American

mix of pronunciation. So I'm sharing the screen. I hope everybody can see the title of this

guest lecture series. Yeah. And thanks for having me. While preparing, I had to look

up the abbreviation SDAC, standards of decision-making across cultures, which is really cool, I think.

And this should be a very cool program that you're studying in. So probably a very nice

and inspiring atmosphere to work in. Yeah. Swen already said enough of what I did in

a couple of years. At first, I am a trained political scientist. And during the last years,

I spent a lot of time working with things you might call political innovations. And

this will probably be for the next couple of years the overarching label of my work.

And during the last two decades, innovations were closely linked to everything digital.

And so it somehow explains why I'm interested in things like AI governance or governance

of AI. And during the last couple of years, I worked also to the Pirate Party or about

the things that Barack Obama and his predecessors did with the use of social media platforms.

And so this led me to taking up the job at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in

Bochum. And this center just recently was upgraded into a genuine research center, which

is founded by five universities or four universities, to be correct, in Northern Australia. And

is some kind of a well-known, not an opponent, or an adversary of the Berlin Weizenbaum Center.

I think it's a similar construction there that we tried to bring together several disciplines

which come as well from the social sciences and the humanities and the more technology-oriented

disciplines. So this is a very interesting center, which is about to grow during the

next years. And I will probably stay attached to this center as an associate researcher.

So that much for the background. With this background tightly connected is the question

of AI governance as a research project, because I had the opportunity to do some research

as part of the so-called research innovation hub in German Forschungs-Inkubator, where

we did some experiments with collaborating across disciplines during January 2020 and

March 2021. So you can see the results I'm about to present today stem from a project

that just lasted for 15 months, which is not very long in terms of scientific research.

So it's a rather small project. And we started out with the notion that there were numerous

international political initiatives in 2017, 2018 concerning AI as projects that they tried

to promote and to regulate as well artificial intelligence. And most of those programs were

situated on a national level all across the globe. But we also noted that there was a

lack of research in political and social sciences that address possible political governance

mechanisms for AI. So this was the starting point of our little project that I conducted

together with my colleague, Anne Goldmann, who is the predecessor of Sven Grundmann on

his position in Nussburg. So we did this stuff together. And so this is some kind of a timeline

we started out with the international programs 2017. And then we recognized that there was

a significant activity in Germany in late 2017 and early 2018. And this was exactly

the time of the last Bundestagswahl. And this is of course everything else then Zufall.

So we had the first substantial paper dealing with questions of AI governance with the coalition

agreement of CDU, CSU and the SPD from February 2018. And then it took only nine months to

establish a national AI strategy. So this is in terms of velocity, it's quite something

like light speed compared to other policy initiatives regarding digital media and the

internet. So they usually took years and years to even formulate strategy papers. And then

AI was different. It was really quickly clear. And then we started to ask, why is that so?

And the national AI strategy was the first substantial activity and it led to a very

coherent idea of developing these topics within the political realm. So we had one year later

an interim report and still you can see the effects of this very intense phase of the

initiative in 2018. So this was the framework for our case study. And we noted already from

the beginning that there is a substantial difference with handling this issue by political