Reinhard Heil, M.A.
- Scientific staff
- Research group “Digital Technologies and Societal Change”
- Room: 230.1
- Phone: +49 721 608-26815
- reinhard heil ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Current projects
- Project leader: “Uncontrollable artificial intelligence: An existential risk?”
- Project leader: “Social trust in learning systems”
Completed projects
- Project leader: “Trust through explainability in verifiable online voting systems”
- Member of project staff: “Socio-technical futures as socio-epistemic practices. An analytical matrix for technology assessment”
- Member of project staff: “Interdisciplinary approaches to deepfakes”
- Member of project staff: “Deepen Genomics – Opportunities and challenges of the convergence of artificial intelligence, human genomics, and genome editing”
- Project coordination: “Assessing Big Data (ABIDA)”
- Project leader: “Engineering Life”
Fields of work
- Social consequences of artificial intelligence
- Transhumanism / Human Enhancement
- Vision assessment
- Life sciences
Professional background
| until 2003 | Master's degree in philosophy, literature and sociology at the TU Darmstadt |
| since 2010 | Member of scientific staff / project leader at ITAS |
Selected publications
Renftle, M.; Trittenbach, H.; Poznic, M.; Heil, R.
What do algorithms explain? The issue of the goals and capabilities of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). 2024. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11 (1), Art.-Nr.: 760. doi:10.1057/s41599-024-03277-x
König, H.; Frank, D.; Baumann, M.; Heil, R.
AI models and the future of genomic research and medicine: True sons of knowledge? Artificial intelligence needs to be integrated with causal conceptions in biomedicine to harness its societal benefits for the field. 2021. Bioessays, 43 (10), Art. Nr.: 2100025. doi:10.1002/bies.202100025
Heil, R.
Zur Aktualität von Slavoj Zizek – Einleitung in sein Werk. 2010. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
Heil, R.
Trans- und Posthumanismus – Begriffsbestimmung. In: A. Hilt / A. Frewer / I. Jordan (Hg.): Endlichkeit, Medizin und Unsterblichkeit: Geschichte – Theorie – Ethik . 2010. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 127-150.