Student Resources at TUM

Master and Bachelor Theses

Are you interested in writing your Master’s or Bachelor’s thesis about AI Ethics? The following chairs and professorships are currently looking for students for topics on AI and Responsible AI.

IEAI

Ethical Evaluation of the OpenAI API: The Importance of Understanding User’s Linguistic Environment, Culture, and Context

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Contact auxane.boch@tum.de or ieai@mcts.tum.de if you are interested.

The Future of AI is Interactions: Ethical Evaluation of the Use of Robots or Conversational AI in a Chosen Context, and Recommendation for the Future

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Contact auxane.boch@tum.de or ieai@mcts.tum.de if you are interested.

The Use of Surveillance Technology during COVID-19: A Comparative Study of Different Times and Contexts

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Contact auxane.boch@tum.de or ieai@mcts.tum.de if you are interested.

Towards Smart Cities: Ethical and Social issues in the development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence-powered technologies in urban contexts

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Contact catarina.fontes@tum.de or ieai@mcts.tum.de if you are interested.

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Chair of Business Ethics

Master’s Thesis on”Survey on Facial Recognition and Public Health”:

The Chair of Business Ethics is offering a master’s thesis dealing with the use of facial recognition programs in the health care sector (as of May 2020). The concrete goal is the preparation of a study which evaluates the ethical preferences on the use of AI technologies with respect to health crises. If you are interested in conducting the study, please contact a.kriebitz@tum.de.

Bachelor’s or Master’s Thesis on “Moral reasoning and offsetting conflicting norms during COVID-19: What role does technology play in this process?”

Background
In 2020, the world experienced an unprecedented health, economic, and social crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, within a short period, we observed changes in behavioral patterns and acquired “new normal” ways of living. Underlying these behavioral changes seems to appear a shift in the prioritization among conflicting fundamental human rights and moral norms. For example, when it comes to the introduction of contact-tracing apps, the right to (data) privacy seems to oppose the right for life and (health) security. Therefore, it is of urgent need to understand the process of moral reasoning when individuals are confronted with conflicting moral norms and new technologies.

Expected goals
Drawing upon past literature and qualitative data stemming from semi-structured interviews, this thesis will aim to determine the process of offsetting norms / rights and developing moral priorities. In particular, it should be investigated what role technology plays in this process. Possible research questions are:

• How do individuals offset conflicting (moral) norms / rights?
• In what way does technology impair or initiate individual’s moral reasoning / maturity?

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Contact
If you are interested, please contact Franziska Poszler (franziska.poszler@tum.de)

Ethics consulting: What do companies want and need to learn from the academic world?

Expected goals:
Drawing upon past literature and qualitative data stemming from semi-structured interviews, this thesis will aim to investigate key issues and areas for which companies may demand consulting on business ethics. The ultimate goals is to draft an ethics curriculum for companies. Possible research questions are:

• What are key ethical issues that companies are currently facing?
• How could researchers in the field of business ethics assist / consult companies?
• How can ethics be transferred into practice?

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Details:
Supervisor:                             Franziska Poszler
Starting date:                          as soon as possible

Contact:
If you are interested, please contact Franziska Poszler (franziska.poszler@tum.de)

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Chair of Cyber Trust

Theses opportunities at the Chair of Cyber Trust (Prof. Grossklags).

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Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics

If you are interested in the research field of the optimization of logistic systems through AI under consideration of employee preferences. the Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow and Logistic is offering the opportunity to research for a master thesis project. The projects aim to investigate this topic by considering to what extent the preferences of the employees as well as the personal data can be used ethically in AI algorithms.

Theses opportunities:

1. Thesis: Analysis of logistic workplaces and employee competences as the basis of a preference-oriented AI
2. Thesis: Literature research: Analysis of optimization approaches for the distribution of employees in the production environment
3. Thesis: Development of a method for the analysis of the personality of employees in production logistic
4. Thesis: Analysis on matching and optimization algorithms for a preference-aware distribution system of workers

Contact Charlotte Haid, M.Sc. at the Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics for more information: charlotte.haid@tum.de

Courses on Ethics

Lectures and seminars on applied ethics, business ethics and ethics in technology at TUM in WS 2019/20 and SS2020.

For more information, check out the TUM website.

Courses on AI

General lectures and seminars on AI, deep and machine learning at TUM in WS 2019/20 and SS2020.

For more information, check out the TUM website.

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