Dr. Sarah Fischer

Sarah Fischer works as a senior expert for the project "reframe[Tech]" in the program “Digitalization and the Common Good” at the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Since 2022, she has been focusing primarily on the topic of AI skills for public administration. Two publications have been released on this topic, providing guidance to public administration on which skills are relevant for the responsible use of AI: "Orientation in the Skills Jungle" and "Orientation in the Skills Jungle 2.0".

Previously, she was primarily responsible for scientific studies in the project and worked on the Automating Society Report 2019 and 2020, as well as the study “The General Data Protection Regulation and Automated Decision-making: Will it deliver?” She is also co-author of a discourse analysis on algorithms and AI in German media between 2005 and 2020, a working paper on "Sources of Error and Responsibilities in Algorithmic Decision Making Processes", and the study “What Germany Knows and Thinks about Algorithms.”

Previously, as a postdoctoral fellow in the graduate college “Trust and Communication in a Digitalized World” at the University of Muenster, she focused on the topic of trust in search engines. In the same research training group, she earned her doctorate with a thesis on trust in health services on the Internet. She studied communication science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

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