Gender Equality and Digitalisation
CitizenScience.AI
2022 saw the launch of a platform that uses interactive formats to explore the links between artificial intelligence (AI) and socially relevant topics. The project is being implemented as part of the equality strategy of the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig in collaboration with the Research Area Responsible AI.
What is ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig?
The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig is a center for artificial intelligence funded as part of the federal government's AI strategy. The AI Competence Center will conduct research on 17 research topics in five interlinked areas of AI, big data and data science. The focus will be on the rapid transfer of research results into scientific and business applications. The transfer and service center serves as a key factor for new collaborations and successful transfer activities in numerous projects in science and industry.
What is our concern?
Our thematic priorities in this project are
- Gender equality
- participatory justice
- Sustainability and cultural diversity
On the one hand, a qualitative-explorative study is being conducted with various developers at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. An interview guide was developed for this purpose, which integrates the core topics mentioned above. The underrepresentation of women in the AI sector and its impact on technology development and social fairness were also analysed in a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering. This study emphasises that generative AI creates new job profiles that can break up traditional skills profiles and promote diversity. A study conducted by the Digitalagentur Sachsen in 2025 also shows that in Saxony women make up only a small proportion of researchers, managers, and employees in the AI sector. The study also offers suggestions on how targeted measures can be used to promote gender equality in this field.
On the other hand, we use various event formats to inform and discuss the diverse possibilities, but also limits of AI and its influence on social processes with a focus on the group of users inside and outside the university campus. Various methods of sustainable learning are used in all interactions. It is also important to us to organize and conduct an open and international dialogue on the challenges of integrating AI into different societies and cultural milieus within the framework conditions of global tensions.
All of this takes place in the PILLARS & UMBRELLAS series of events.
The results of both strands of activity will be fed back to each other in the spirit of the transfer idea.
© Michael Kretschmar
Project Team CitizenScience.AI
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This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State governments.