Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Huber liest aus seinem Buch „Menschen, Götter und Maschinen – Eine Ethik der Digitalisierung“ und diskutiert mit Benjamin Minack.
Die demokratische Wissensgesellschaft scheint beim Blick in die Zukunft manchmal wie gelähmt. Zwar versprechen neue Entwicklungen in Wissenschaft und Technik Lösungen gesellschaftlicher Probleme. Doch erweisen sie sich komplexer als gedacht und bedürfen politischer Gestaltung.
Driven by low taxes and labor costs, a highly competitive automotive industry has developed in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe, which is part of the production networks of European automotive manufacturers. This has long since included not only component production, but increasingly production of automobiles by European original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), together with research and product development activities. In view of the transformation processes of the automotive industry towards electromobility, the question arises whether this development will continue.
The project is part of the Weizenbaum Institute. The research group based there and associated with the WZB research group "Globalization, Work and Production" is investigates how work is changing through the use of AI.
The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the functioning of global systems of outsourced and offshored production known as ‘global production networks’ (GPNs). Factory slowdowns and shutdowns worldwide led to job losses, revised firm strategies, and new government policies. Covid-19 disruptions to GPNs have been severe and unprecedented in many ways. The project aims to understand how and to what extent the Covid-19 crisis, and now increasing geopolitical tensions due to the US-China trade and technology conflict, but also due to the Russian war on Ukraine and energy concerns, will lead to geographical restructuring of GPNs.