Katharina Zweig studied biochemistry and bioinfor-matics. She has been a professor of informatics at the technical university in Kaiserslautern since 2012, where she set up a degree course in social informatics. Awards she has received include the Theodor Heuss Medal, and she has been honoured as one of 39 Digital Minds in Germany. She also founded an AI consultancy startup. She has been consulted by various government ministries in Berlin, is on the Artificial Intelligence committee of enquiry in the Bundestag and popular as a public speaker.