The Cyber Valley Public Advisory Board (PAB) is an independent committee that evaluates the ethical and social implications of research projects conducted in Cyber Valley. Its role is to review project proposals from Cyber Valley research groups prior to their approval by the Cyber Valley Research Fund Board (RFB).
The members of the PAB have access to all funding applications and can thus see how the funds are spent. Moreover, the PAB advises the RFB and can request further information, express concerns, and engage in debate. Its members were appointed by Baden-Württemberg’s science minister Theresia Bauer. They represent a broad spectrum of relevant disciplines and backgrounds:
- PAB Spokesperson
- Professor of Ethics at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen. Head of the Department of Society, Culture and Technical Change
- Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. Head of the"Human Perception, Cognition and Action" department
- City Councillor, Tübingen City Council
Armin Grunwald
- Philosophy of Technology professor and Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Head of the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag
- Director of the Weltethos-Institute in Tübingen
- CEO, the Ethical Tech Society
- Member of the EU’s Expert Group on AI
Sandra Richter
- Director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach
- Founder of apic.ai, an AI start-up
- Co-Organizer, Fridays for Future, Heidelberg
- Student at the University of Heidelberg
