We are delighted to announce a new collaboration that marks the beginning of the next chapter of the MoralPLai Project. Together with the University of Bayreuth, Opferhilfe Oberfranken e.V. and Naturbühne Trebgast, the research-based theater play "The Third Voice" will be adapted into German and presented under the title "Die dritte Stimme".
MoralPLai Documentary Premiere and Live Discussion at The Responsible AI Forum on May 20th, 2026. Moderated by Anastasia Arizi and Dr. Franziska Poszler, panel participants included Dr. Benjamin Lange, Eva Riekenbrauck and Denis Sedlmeier.
MoralPLai was featured among TUM’s public engagement activities in a dedicated news post, highlighting innovative science communication formats that bring research into cultural spaces and foster dialog between academia and the public. The project was also highlighted in the TUM Magazine, TUM’s flagship magazine, which showcases research, innovation and societal impact stories from across the university for a broad readership.
MoralPLai Revisited, was a behind-the-scenes documentary that premiered on May 20th, 2026, one year after The Third Voice, at Amerikahaus during the Responsible AI Forum, the flagship event of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.
From May 4–6th, 2026, the Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable Conference (FOR2026) was held at the Technical University of Munich’s Institute for Advanced Studies (TUM-IAS) in Garching. The event brought together scholars, activists and policymakers to explore the evolving challenges of open research and to reflect on its future directions.
We are excited to announce that the MoralPLai Project will take center stage at this year’s The Responsible AI Forum, returning to the Amerikahaus on May 20th from 13:30–14:45.
Over the past few weeks, the MoralPLai team has taken part in numerous exchanges, presentations and conference discussions in Vancouver, Essen, Eindhoven and Vienna, sparking engaging conversations about the value of theater, the ‘moral reasoning’ of large language models (LLMs), how to navigate contrasting research findings and trust in LLM-based conversational AI, particularly in psychotherapy.
On December 17-18, 2025, Dr. Franziska Poszler participated in the GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future conference at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Q&A with MoralPLai Project Lead Dr. Franziska Poszler.
On November 10, Dr. Franziska Poszler was invited to give a guest lecture entitled “AI Chatbots as Moral Dialog Partners” at Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences (THI) within the eTHIcs Lecture Series.
