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Human-centered research, trustworthy data analytics in safety-critical applications, explainable ML, privacy-aware algorithms. More about us: https://rc-trust.ai/
What happens when AI feels emotionally close? 🤖💬
On #SaferInternetDay 2026, Paula Ebner shared research on human–chatbot relationships–why attachment is understandable 🧠 and why critical awareness matters ⚖️
How should we shape digital intimacy?
Photo: klicksafe/Axel Heiter
🔐 How do we defend trust online?
At RUB’s Computer Science Day, Prof. Rebekah Overdorf presented her inaugural lecture on detecting & analyzing harmful activities in online platforms 🛡️📊
Research at the intersection of security, privacy & data science.
What builds digital trust? 💬
#Cybersecurity
🚀 2 Postdoc positions in Verification & Formal Methods at TU Dortmund (Reliable AI Group)!
We also welcome researchers in safe/secure ML & AI quality assurance. 🤖🔍
📅 Deadline: March 10, 2026
📩 jobs-reliable-ai@rc-trust.ai
#Postdoc #FormalMethods #TrustworthyAI
🤖 Welcome Leon Swazinna!
Since Jan 2026, Leon is a PhD student researching large language models, trust, and security.
How can we tell if AI truly understands a task - and where are the risks? 🔍🔐
#TrustworthyAI #LLMs #Research
How does social media shape political debate? 🧠📲
At the NRW State Parliament in Düsseldorf, Prof. Nicole Krämer (UDE) spoke on the effects of social media on political discourse – from opinion formation to polarisation and disinformation.
#PoliticalCommunication
Photo: Landtag NRW/Bernd Schälte
🌍📊 At the AI Colloquium, Nils Weitzel presents Environmetrics-combining environmental data, natural archives & climate models to better understand climate variability and improve regional projections.
📅 Feb 4 | ⏰ 10:30
#ClimateScience #AI
🎉 Welcome, Zoe Kahn!
Since Jan 2026, Zoe has been a Postdoc at RC Trust, working on participatory and responsible technology design - from AI governance to lived expertise.
How do we better include people with diverse perspectives in tech decisions? 💬
#ResponsibleAI #TechAndSociety #RCTrust
🚀 AI meets the world of work!
On March 17, 2026, the 2nd AI Workshop: Research – Practice – Working World takes place in Dortmund.
🤖🧠 Let’s talk about trustworthy AI, real-world applications & societal impact.
👉 Register now: www.baua.de/DE/Angebote/...
#AI #FutureOfWork #TrustworthyAI
Photo: BAuA
🏥🧬 At the AI Colloquium, Allan Tucker discusses synthetic health data-balancing privacy, bias & evolving healthcare data to enable trustworthy AI research.
📅 Feb 4 | ⏰ 9:30
#HealthAI #AI
👀 Optical illusions don’t just fool humans – they challenge AI too 🤖
Carina Newen introduces Ambivision, a dataset that exposes limits of Explainable AI 🌀
Concepts like 👁️ gaze direction matter more than pixels.
How should AI explanations work? 💭
#ExplainableAI #TrustworthyAI #AIResearch
🔍 Registration is open for HARRIS 2026!
120+ experts meet in Bochum to discuss hardware reverse engineering & trust.
Co-organized by Steffen Becker (RC Trust), supported by Prof. Christof Paar.
👉 harris2026.mpi-sp.org/registration/
#HardwareSecurity #HARRIS2026
👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Iheb Dridi! 🎉
As a technical research assistant, he supports research on how people understand & trust algorithms 🤖🧠
Great to have you on board!
What matters most to you when trusting AI systems?
#TrustworthyAI #Research #HumanCenteredAI
How do we make AI more trustworthy? 🤖✨
Akif explored this question during his time in the RC Trust Internship Program - working on LLM reasoning, transparency & bias in an international research setting.
👉 rc-trust.ai/career/internship-program
#Internship #AIResearch #TrustworthyAI
🤖🎓 Welcome to RC Trust, Lepakshi Venkatraman!
Since Jan 2026, Lepakshi has been a PhD researcher working on machine learning, agentic & embodied AI – focusing on how AI systems behave, fail, and can be held accountable in real-world settings.
#PhDResearch #ResponsibleAI #RCTrust
🌍🤖 Inclusive research matters.
At the AI Colloquium, Prof. Giulia Barbareschi introduces inclusive research practices for trustworthy AI.
📅 Jan 21 | ⏰ 9:30
📍 TU Dortmund + Zoom
#AI #InclusiveAI
Welcome to RC Trust, Dorina Rohse 🎓✨
As a research assistant, she explores how Virtual Reality can support inclusive education – from research to real classrooms 🥽📚
How can immersive tech foster participation for all learners?
#InclusiveTech #VR #EducationResearch
🤖📊 New paper in Statistics in Medicine:
ChatGPT can support biostatistics – but only with strong human oversight 🧠⚖️
Trustworthy AI needs transparency, uncertainty awareness & methodology.
What’s your take on AI in science? 👇
#TrustworthyAI #DataScience #AIResearch #OpenScience
Photo: ChatGPT
Welcome to RC Trust 👋🤖
Since Jan 1, 2026, Ankur Bhatt has joined our Human-AI Interaction group as a PhD researcher.
His interests: sensor-based technologies, eye-worn computing 👓, NLP 💬 & multilingual AI 🌍 – all about making AI more human-centered.
#HumanAIInteraction #PhD #AIResearch
🤖🚦 Safe AI matters!
At the AI Colloquium, Prof. Nils Jansen discusses how formal methods make learning systems trustworthy.
📅 Jan 15, 10:15 AM
📍 TU Dortmund University, JvF 25, 3rd Floor
#AI #SafeAI #Research
Photo: Ruhr University Bochum
🇪🇺⚖️ Welcome to RC Trust, Rachel Griffin!
Since Jan 2026, Rachel has been a Postdoc researching EU platform & AI regulation – focusing on structural injustice, risk, and accountability in digital systems.
How should we govern platform power? 💬
#DigitalGovernance #EURegulation #RCTrust
🚀 Apply now for the RC Trust Internship Program 2026!
Funded research stays in trustworthy AI, international teams & close mentoring.
📅 Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
👉 rc-trust.ai/career/internship-program
Is this your next step? ✨
#Internship #AI #Research
✨🎄 Happy Holidays and a successful New Year from the RC Trust team! 🎉
🤝 Thank you to all our partners, collaborators, and supporters for a year of great cooperation and inspiring exchange.
🚀 Looking forward to new projects, encounters, and shared ideas in the year ahead ✨
How does disinformation really work? 🧠📲
At Fact Check Thailand 2026 in Bangkok, Prof. Nicole Krämer (UDE) gave a keynote on the psychological effects of disinformation – invited by the German Embassy in Thailand. 🇩🇪🤝🇹🇭
#Disinformation #FactChecking #MediaPsychology
Daniil from University of Washington, Tacoma joined us through the Internship Program, using the stay to dive deeper into privacy-preserving NLP. 🔐✨
Focused research time, global exchange, and strong mentorship made the experience transformative.
#AI #NLP #Internship #Privacy
Professor Jin Xu is visiting the RC Trust! 🎓✨
On 17 Dec, 14:15 – 15:00 (M/E 21, TU Dortmund) he’ll explain how Bayesian Optimization via Exact Penalty makes complex constraints easier to handle.
Join the discussion! 🔍💡
#Statistics #Optimization #UARuhr
📢 Why does online hate spread? On 11 Dec, Prof. Joe Walther (UC Santa Barbara) visits Duisburg to explore how haters talk to each other — not just their targets. Join us at 10:00! 💬🔥
➡️ How do you think online hate shapes society?
#OnlineHate #DigitalSociety #UARuhr
Photo: Joseph Walther
🤖🔍 On 11 Dec, Prof. Barbara Hammer (Bielefeld) discusses when we can trust AI explanations.
📅 10:15–11:45 AM
📍 JvF25/3-303 – Lamarr/RC Trust Dortmund
#XAI #AI
🤖✨ On Dec 8, Prof. Christian Glaser (TU Dortmund) shows how AI is pushing the boundaries of neutrino astronomy.
📅 2:15–3:45 PM, JvF25/3-303
🌌 Don’t miss it!
#AI #Science
Photo: © Beran Kosan
We’re looking forward to welcoming Marjolein Fokkema this Friday (28.11.) at 9:45am in Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 25 (JvF25) 🤖🔎.
She’ll discuss how methods like boosting trees and RuleSHAP make machine learning more interpretable.
#MachineLearning #ExplainableAI #DataScience
Photo: Patricia Nauta
How should Europe deal with AI “companions” for kids and teens? 🤖🧒
At the ECAT Research Workshop 2025 in Seville, Nicole Krämer spoke on “Agentic AI: Risks and opportunities for young people” – from mental health risks to chances for support and inclusion. 🇪🇺
#TrustworthyAI
Photo: EU ECAT
