Arne Sonar

Research Associate

Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine
Universität zu Lübeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64

Email:	arne.sonar(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone:	+49 451 3101 6224

Research

Research Interests

Interdependencies between technological and cultural development
Philosophy of technology and philosophy of culture
Ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of technology
Ethics of technology
Applied and theoretical ethics

Current Projects

Cooperative and Communicating AI methods for medical image-guided diagnostics addressing ethical, social & user-data-interaction challenges (CoCoAI)

Curriculum Vitae

Arne Sonar has studied ‚Culture and Technology’ consecutive at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg. He received his B.A and M.A. degrees in 2013 and 2016. From 2015 to 2018 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sustainability in Technology and Economics at the Technical University for Applied Science (OTH) Amberg-Weiden. Within the ‘GlycoRec’-project he was responsible for the accompanying research on ethical, legal and social implications. Between 2018 and 2020 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University for Applied Science (OTH) Regensburg. Focusing on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and ethics he worked within the research project ‘Stakeholder Perspectives on AI-assisted Medical Decision-making and Development of Ethical Guidelines for the Use of AI-Systems in Medicine’. In September 2020 he moved to the University of Lübeck where he is part of the working group of the Ethical Innovation Hub (EIH). He is currently working in the research project ‘Cooperative and Communicating Artificial Intelligence’ (CoCoAI), where he is deepening his work on the topic of AI and its ethical and social implications.

Academic Career

09/2020 –	Research assistant (Project: “Cooperative and Communicating AI – CoCoAI”) and PhD student at the Ethical Innovation Hub, University of Lübeck
10/2018 – 08/2020	Research assistant at the Technical University for Applied Sciences (OTH) Regensburg (Project: “Stakeholder Perspectives on AI-assisted Medical Decision-making and Development of Ethical Guidelines for the Use of AI-Systems in Medicine (AI and Ethics)"
06/2015 – 03/2018	Research assistant at the Technical University for Applied Sciences (OTH) Amberg-Weiden (Project: “GlycoRec”)
09/2016	Degree (M.A.) in Culture and Technology (focus: ‘Technology and Technology Development in Public Discourse’), Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg
7/2014 – 10/2014	Student assistant at the Leibnitz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg within the project "Survey of Conflicts in the Agricultural Landscape”
09/2013	Degree (B.A.) n Culture and Technology, Brandenburg University for Technology (BTU) Cottbus
12/2012 – 01/2013	Trainee in the junior research group "Biofuel as Social Fuel: Biofuels as Social Fuel for Sustainable Development" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Arne Sonar, and Christian Herzog,
Creating a future with algorithmic partners – A preliminary proposal for constitutive features for a ‘cooperative and communicative’ AI, in Politics of Technoscientific Futures , Madrid, Spain: European Society for the Study of Science and Technology, 2022.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{SoHe22,
	address = {Madrid, Spain},
	title = {Creating a future with algorithmic partners – A preliminary proposal for constitutive features for a ‘cooperative and communicative’ AI},
	copyright = {All rights reserved},
	booktitle = {Politics of Technoscientific Futures},
	publisher = {European Society for the Study of Science and Technology},
	author = {Sonar, Arne and Herzog, Christian},
	year = {2022}
}

Christian Herzog, Sabrina Breyer, Noah-Art Leinweber, Robin Preiß, Arne Sonar, and Gunter Bombaerts,
Everything you Want to Know and Never Dared to ask – A Practical Approach to Employing Challenge-Based Learning in Engineering Ethics, Barcelona, Spain , 2022.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{HerzogBreyerLeinweberPreissSonarBombaerts2022,
        address = {Barcelona, Spain},
        title = {Everything you Want to Know and Never Dared to ask – A Practical Approach to Employing Challenge-Based Learning in Engineering Ethics},
        copyright = {All rights reserved},
        author = {Herzog, Christian and Breyer, Sabrina and Leinweber, Noah-Art and Preiß, Robin and Sonar, Arne and Bombaerts, Gunter},
        year = {2022}
}

Christian Herzog, Sabrina Breyer, Arne Sonar, and Gunter Bombaerts,
Challenge-based Learning for Robotics Students by Engaging Start-Ups in Technology Ethics, in Reflecting Technology in Academic Teaching. Workshop on Teaching Environmental, Societal, and Ethical Dimensions of Technological Change , Karlsruhe , 2021.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{Herzog2021d,
	address = {Karlsruhe},
	title = {Challenge-based Learning for Robotics Students by Engaging Start-Ups in Technology Ethics},
	booktitle = {Reflecting Technology in Academic Teaching. Workshop on Teaching Environmental,  Societal,  and Ethical Dimensions of Technological Change},
	author = {Herzog, Christian and Breyer, Sabrina and Sonar, Arne and Bombaerts, Gunter},
	year = {2021}
}