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AlgorithmWatch CH @ SEASON conference 2026

Corinna Hertweck and Giovanni Astante presented our ongoing research on “AI overviews” at the SEASON conference in Hamburg. A brief glance back.

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The AI Climate Hoax: Behind the Curtain of How Big Tech Greenwashes Impacts

The tech companies driving AI expansion claim that AI will eventually help solve climate change. Our analysis indicates that such claims are not based on credible and verifiable data. On the contrary, the evidence for any significant positive climate impacts from AI is weak, while its substantial climate damage is clearly documented.

AlgorithmWatch’s guideline to use generative AI responsibly

Whether you use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, Copilot or Perplexity – generative AI poses massive problems: many results are inaccurate and politically problematic, and the systems’ energy and water consumption is enormous. At the same time, they have become an integral part of everyday life. AlgorithmWatch has developed guidelines to help use generative AI responsibly.

Report algorithmic discrimination!

When we apply for credit, apartments, or jobs online, companies increasingly use automated systems to process our data and make decisions that impact our daily lives. The problem: Such systems are not neutral and can reproduce inequalities and assumptions about people that already exist in society. What can we do to ensure that the use of non-transparent automated systems does not lead to people being disadvantaged? We need to make algorithmic discrimination visible, and you can help us with it!

Atlas of Automation

To detect benefit fraud, measure work performance, predict a person's creditworthiness or show us personalised content online - algorithms and so-called "artificial intelligence" are shaping our everyday lives today. Where, by whom and for what purpose these algorithmic systems are used, however, is largely a black box. With the Atlas of Automation, AlgorithmWatch CH now sheds light on the darkness.