Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour, Seminar für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Education, School, and Behaviour, Research

What do people know about GenAI?

Date
4. Mar 2025, 4.00 pm
Location
C19.00.02 (research building "Weltbeziehungen")
Organizer
Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour
Speaker(s)
Dr Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
Event type
Lecture
Event Language(s)
English
Audience
university public (after registration)

Generative AI tools offer easy access to scientific information. Still, they suffer from limitations such as hallucinations, reliance on unreliable sources, and interfaces that make it difficult to assess the reliability of the information. In the lecture, we will use data collected in 2023-24 to answer: What do people know about artificial intelligence and its limitations? How do people use information generated by artificial intelligence to make science-related decisions? How do people evaluate content and sources in generative AI? And who do they trust more – GenAI or their newspaper?

Dr Ayelet Baram-Tsabari

Dr Ayelet Baram-Tsabari is a science education and communication professor at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology and Franz Ollendorf Chair at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Her training in science education (Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, 2008) and science communication (Marie Curie fellowship, Cornell University, 2010), alongside considerable experience as a journalist, editor, and TV presenter (1999-2008), have together shaped her commitment to evidence-based practice and research in science communication and education. Baram-Tsabari hosts a science communication MOOC on edX and serves as an editorial board member of Public Understanding of Science and the International Journal of Science Education: Part B. She is also an associate editor and editorial board member of Science Communication. Her research program focuses on the relevance of science education to public engagement with science and on training scientists for effective science communication. 

Please register by 2 March by sending an e-mail to eva.thomm@uni-erfurt.de.

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