AI, Computing and Society

Research on Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Society at MPI-SWS tackles the pressing scientific, engineering and societal challenges posed by an increasingly AI-driven world.  Recent research includes AI-based tutoring systems, computational models of language processing in the brain that also inform improvements to large language models, methods for enhancing the transparency and reliability of modern AI systems, frameworks that support compliance of AI systems with EU regulations such as the AI Act and the Digital Services Act, and automated decision-support systems in high-stakes domains.

News

MPI-SWS researchers receive a Best Paper Award at SIGCSE TS 2026

June 2026
MPI-SWS researchers have received the 2026 SIGCSE TS best paper award for their paper "Closing the Loop: An Instructor-in-the-Loop AI Assistance System for Supporting Student Help-Seeking in Programming Education."

Interview with Krishna Gummadi on the agency of artificial intelligence, AI agents, and potential societal impacts

May 2026
In this interview, MPI-SWS director Krishna Gummadi discusses the benefits AI agents offer people and the risks they pose to society.

MPI researcher receives Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026

April 2026
MPI-SWS Max Planck Fellow Anthony W. Lin has received one of only two Outstanding Paper Awards at ICLR 2026, for his paper "Transformers are Inherently Succinct." 

"Teaming for Excellence" Horizon Proposal funded with INESC-ID and DFKI Kaiserslautern

April 2026
MPI-SWS researchers (together with DFKI in Kaiserslautern and researchers at INESC-ID) have been funded under the competitive Horizon Europe "Teaming for Excellence" programme.

MPI-SWS faculty participate in the new Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence

March 2026
Krishna Gummadi has been named a fellow of the new Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence.

Papers