Digitalization and AI for Society, in Education and Educational Research (DAI-EaR’25)

On September 19, 2025, the workshop “Digitalization and AI for Society, in Education and Educational Research (DAI-EaR’25)” took place as part of the Informatik Festival 2025 organized by the German Informatics Society (GI). On this day, scientists and practitioners discussed the opportunities and challenges of digital technologies for society, education, and the labor market. As in previous years, the workshop was organized by Dr. Michael Tiemann and PD Dr. Jens Dörpinghaus. The opening session focused on humans in dialogue with AI: humor in chatbots, immersive learning environments for language learning, and open-source frameworks for digital assistants. It also addressed the digital analysis of professions: from gender bias in YouTube recommendations to the automated classification of German job titles. Accompanying posters were presented, including on open curriculum data and the representativeness of online labor market data.   A special session at lunchtime highlighted historical perspectives: the BIBB vocational archive, record linkage for historical VET data, vocational training research as digital history, and a presentation on the use of computers in the GDR rounded off the program. Journalist René Meyer classified computers in the GDR in terms of their use in vocational activities, as a place of learning, and in schools, with support from Dr. Helge Körner Overall, the conference impressively demonstrated how digitization and AI must be approached in an interdisciplinary manner—as a task that shapes technology, society, and education policy.