Machine De/Differentiation. Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and the Digital Gaming Industry (F06 (ehem.C06))

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442261292

The subproject investigates the differentiation of humans and machines and aims to understand how the use of AI is changing the differentiation of performance in higher education and the digital games industry. In the context of higher education, the subproject focuses on AI-supported writing practices on the part of the participants; in the field of the creative industry, it examines work with AI in game development. It also investigates the regulations that emerge from the discourse on AI in both fields. The project seeks to contribute to a sociology-of-knowledge approach to the zones of human distinction, using the case of human–machine de/differentiation as a point of departure.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1482: Studies in Human Differentiation
• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Sascha Dickel; Professor Dr. Herbert Kalthoff