the third attempt at a human-centered internet
humanet3 is an interdisciplinary research group which analyzes, deconstructs, and contributes to initiatives aiming at a human-centered digital transformation, as proposed by the European Commission in its ‘European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade’.
Who we are
humanet3 is a joint research group established by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Prof. Armin von Bogdandy), the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Prof. Josef Drexl), and the Center for Humans and Machines (CHM) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Prof. Iyad Rahwan). It is led by Erik Tuchtfeld, other group members are Anna Sophia Tiedeke, Chaewon Yun, and Germán Oscar Johannsen.
What we do
The group analyzes, deconstructs, and contributes to initiatives aiming at a human-centered digital transformation. Its focus is the digital public space, as space for debate and expressing opinion on the internet. The group investigates how current developments in the digital realm, such as the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, affect individual rights by either limiting or by facilitating them. In addition, it also deals with possible systemic changes on an infrastructural level orientated towards an internet committed to the public interest and not merely the profit and power of private actors.
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