Rainer Mühlhoff (born 1982)[1] is a German philosopher, mathematician and full professor for ethics of artificial intelligence at Osnabrück University, Germany.
Rainer Mühlhoff studied mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science at the Universities of Heidelberg, Münster and Leipzig.
He earned a PhD in philosophy from Free University of Berlin in 2016 with a dissertation on affect theory after Spinoza and Foucault.
His work, which focused on post-structuralism, continental philosophy and critical social theory, was supervised by Jan Slaby and Martin Saar.
He has published works on privacy and data protection, intersectionality, and anti-discrimination in the context of digital technology and has an interdisciplinary approach.
When training AI models, media systems of human-computer interaction are deliberately designed in such a way that users produce data, like with CAPTCHAs.