Rainer Mühlhoff
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Rainer Mühlhoff worked as a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy. At SCIoI, he worked on SCIoI Project 19 (Ethics of Design in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics). He is a philosopher and mathematician by training, specializing in social philosophy, philosophy of technology, and critical theory of the digital society.
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Mühlhoff, R. (2021). Predictive privacy: towards an applied ethics of data analytics. Ethics and Information Technology, 23(4), 675–690. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-021-09606-x
Mühlhoff, R. (2020). Automatisierte Ungleichheit: Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz in der biopolitischen Wende des Digitalen Kapitalismus. Deutsche Zeitschrift Für Philosophie, 68(6), 867–890. https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2020-0059
Mühlhoff, R. (2020). Prädiktive Privatheit: Warum wir alle »etwas zu verbergen haben«. In C. Markschies & I. Hermann (Eds.), #VerantwortungKI – Künstliche Intelligenz und gesellschaftliche Folgen (Vol. 3/2020). Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
