👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Marjolein Fokkema! The new professor at TU Dortmund University develops interpretable machine learning methods and improves uncertainty quantification in behavioral research. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #MachineLearning #Statistics #Psychology Photo: Julian Welz

🤖 Can delegating decisions to AI make us more cooperative? At #ICSD2026 in Japan, Inês Terrucha presented RC Trust research with Nils Köbis on AI delegation, prosocial choices and self-interest. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #RCTRust #HumanAI

👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Chris Köcher! Chris joins Daniel Neider’s group as a Postdoc, bringing expertise in automata, formal language theory & verification – including work on LLM expressivity. 🤖🔍 #TrustworthyAI #FormalMethods

👋 Welcome to RC Trust, Paul Fink! Paul joins Daniel Neider’s group as a PhD student, bringing a background in philosophy, logic, multi-agent systems & formal methods. 🔍📐 #FormalMethods #TrustworthyAI

Causal discovery under skewed noise. 📊🔎 Daniel Klippert from @a-marx.bsky.social’s Causality group presents an ICML 2026 poster on SkewD – a method for causal discovery when real-world data is skewed. 🎓 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #ICML2026 #Causality #MachineLearning #CausalSky

🤖🔍 Ruhr Fellow David Broczkowski is studying transformer verification in Daniel Neider’s group at RC Trust. The internship combines AI research, formal methods, German practice and a first close look at academic life. 🇺🇸🇩🇪 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #TrustworthyAI #Verification

🌍 International exchange also happens behind the scenes. Ulrike Guba from Markus Pauly’s chair at TU Dortmund University used Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for job shadowing at Leiden University – gaining insights into administration, academic rituals, and everyday university work. #ErasmusPlus

🧪🤖 Can AI make chemical processes safer – and who checks the AI? Daniel Neider contributes to the 2nd DFG funding phase of FOR 5359, focusing on formal verification of neural networks for anomaly detection in sparse chemical process data. Photo©Schloss Dagstuhl – LZI GmbH, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

Learning from cause and consequence 🤖🔎 Gabin Agbalé from @a-marx.bsky.social’s Causality group attended the Reinforcement Learning Summer School 2026 in Milan – connecting his PhD work on causal representation learning with international exchange. 🇮🇹🎓 #AI #Causality Photo: RLSS 2026/ELLIS Unit Milan

Uncertainty is not a flaw in data science. It is part of making data science trustworthy. At RC Trust, Dr. Julian Rodemann discussed uncertainty quantification, statistical inference, and feedback loops in modern machine learning. Read more: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #TrustworthyAI #DataScience

Research Explorer Ruhr 2026 brought three international early career researchers to RC Trust. Their visits connected mobility research, safe learning systems and statistics with possible future collaborations. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: Marquard/RUB

At #ACL2026 in San Diego, RC Trust researchers contributed three papers and one workshop on privacy in NLP, generative web search, and multimodal industry classification. With contributions by Ivan Habernal, Bilal Zafar, and Elisabeth Kirsten. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: Elisabeth Kirsten

🐛 A centipede walks effortlessly – until the frog asks how. In a science communication essay written as a submission to the KlarText Prize, Dr. Linara Adilova explains why trustworthy deep learning needs more than impressive performance.🧠📐 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Illustration: AI-generated

💙 What makes a chatbot feel like a romantic partner? In her first publication, Paula Ebner explores romantic human-chatbot relationships together with Dr. Jessica Szczuka. Published in Technology, Mind, and Behavior. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #DigitalIntimacy #AICompanions

Start with abilities, not assumptions. Laurianne Sitbon visited the Graduate School and Giulia Barbareschi’s chair to discuss inclusive co-design with people with intellectual disability. Message: smart technologies become more trustworthy when people can help shape them. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

🎉 Jessica Szczuka has been appointed as one of ten new members of Die Junge Akademie. At RC Trust, she leads the Young Investigator Group INTITEC – Intimacy with and through Technology. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #DieJungeAkademie #RCTRUST Photo: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert

AI can make science faster – but speed is not a quality check. 🚀 @johannesbreuer.com visited the RC Trust Graduate School to discuss AI, trust and research practice in the social and behavioral sciences. Transparency, quality, reproducibility:all are being reshaped by AI. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

AI in justice is no longer just theory ⚖️🤖 Ivan Habernal joined AI & JUSTICE in Prague and warned: if LLMs enter legal practice, rigorous evaluation, transparency & accountability must come first. 👉 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: Tomas Koref

At #ICA2026 in Cape Town, RC Trust researchers presented work on human–AI interaction, science communication, AI literacy, privacy, misinformation, and digital intimacy. A strong fit for a center asking how trustworthy technology is understood, communicated, and lived. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

🧭 Corruption research meets digital responsibility. RC Trust and the University of Cologne co-host the 10th ICRN Forum in Duisburg. The organizing team includes members of Nils Köbis’ HUAM group, together with Anna Schwickerath from the University of Cologne. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #ICRN2026

📚 Learning data can help identify students who need support early. But can a model trained in one course be trusted in another? A new paper led by Jakob Schwerter explores trustworthy learning analytics from an RC Trust-funded project. 🎓📊 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Credit: Rebecca Beiter

🏆🌍 AI instead of waste! EDIH-DO has won the EDIH Network Award for Excellence 2026 for a transfer project with Stattküche GmbH and Markus Pauly’s group at TU Dortmund University.🍽️📊🌱 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photocredit: European Digital Innovation Hubs Network #TrustworthyAI #Sustainability

📊🧬 Save the date! The 73rd Biometrical Colloquium will take place from 28 Feb–3 Mar 2027 at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Motto: Biostatistics in the era of AI: Kraftwerk or Tote Hose?🤖🎶 Markus Pauly is part of the Scientific Programme Committee. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #Biostatistics

🧠 How do neural networks actually learn? At the BIFOLD & ELLIS workshop AI to Accelerate Scientific Understanding in Berlin, Dr. Linara Adilova presented RC Trust research on information theory, geometry, latent representations & generalization in deep learning. rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

🏆 Great news from #DIS2026 🇸🇬 Three international research collaborations involving Giulia Barbareschi will be featured – including a Best Paper Award and an Honorable Mention🌍 Topics ranged from 🤖 soft robots to 🎨 disability-led digital art rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo ©University of Singapore

🚀A great responsibility – and an incredible honor. Sven Mayer from RC Trust & TU Dortmund University will serve as Technical Program Chair for #CHI2027 together with Rosta Farzan (University of Pittsburgh). A major role in one of the world’s leading HCI conferences 🌉📄 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

🤖❤️ When AI systems become emotionally persuasive, governance questions become personal. At #FAccT2026, J. Szczuka presents research on “relational accountability” and the regulation of AI companions together with H. Fraser and R. Ciriello. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Graphic: © AMC FAccT 2026

📊 Reliable evidence needs reliable methods. Co-initiated by RC Trust PI Markus Pauly, a symposium in Göttingen explored new statistical methods for meta-analyses with few studies and small sample sizes. 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #Statistics #RCTrust #MetaAnalysis

📊🌍 TU Dortmund University welcomes Thomas Gerds from the University of Copenhagen for a guest lecture on causal inference and trustworthy health data research 🔬 The lecture was initiated by doctoral researcher Maria Thurow✨ 🗓 June 10, 2026 📍 IBZ, TU Dortmund University 🔗 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

🎓🤖 Can we trust AI in education? At HAYEF AI4EDU 2026 in Istanbul, Dr. Meltem Aksoy discussed “calibrated trust” in AI: neither blind reliance nor rejection, but understanding what AI can do, where it fails & when humans must decide. 🧠🤝 rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... #TrustworthyAI #AIinEducation