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🎓 Big milestone at the Philosophy Department!
Barnaby (Barney) Cook defended his PhD thesis—our first doctoral graduation in quite a while! 🥳

📘 Dissertation Title: Understanding and the Black Box Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Barney's work tackles one of AI's most pressing challenges: how to understand and explain opaque machine learning systems. From conceptual frameworks to the practical limits of explainable AI, his research bridges philosophy, computer science, neuroscience, and psychiatry.
Huge congratulations, Barney!

📸 (Left to right): Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund), Daniel Buschek (Computer Science), Barnaby Cook, Lena Kästner