Best Paper Award at Yale Digital Ethics Center Symposium for Anna-Maria Brandtner

MCML Junior Member Anna-Maria Brandtner, a PhD student in the group of MCML PI Benjamin Lange, received the Best Paper Award at the inaugural Digital Ethics Center Symposium (DECS) at Yale University. The one-day international symposium, hosted by Yale’s Digital Ethics Center, addressed the governance, ethical, legal, and social implications of digital technologies and showcased the work of early-career researchers. Brandtner was one of six researchers selected through a competitive international call to present their work.

In her paper “How Not to Detect genAI Text: An Ethical-Political Call to Resist AI Text Detection,” Brandtner examines how undisclosed AI use gives readers reason to doubt who wrote a text. She argues that AI text detectors make this loss of trust worse. Instead, authors should strengthen readers’ reasons to trust them, through disclosure and by demonstrating their competence.

Congratulations on this recognition!