Prof. Dr. Christoph Benzmüller

E-Mail: christoph.benzmueller(at)uni-bamberg.de

Anschrift: An der Weberei 5, 96047 Bamberg

Raum: WE_5/05.090

Tel.: +49 (0)951/863-2942

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Prof. Christoph Benzmüller ist seit 2022 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für KI-Systementwicklung an der Universität Bamberg. Als außerplanmäßiger Professor ist er zudem mit dem Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik der Freien Universität Berlin verbunden (dort war er erster UNA Europa Gastprofessor) und er unterhält eine enge Forschungskooperation mit der Universität Luxemburg. Darüber hinaus berät er KI-Startup-Unternehmen im In- und Ausland.

Benzmüller’s Forschungsinteressen liegen in der Schnittstelle von KI/Informatik, Philosophie, Mathematik und Sprache. Seine Forschungsarbeiten zeigen, dass rationale Argumente durch den Einsatz moderner, symbolischer KI-Technologie inzwischen sehr gut in Computern mechanisiert und analysiert werden können. Benzmüller hat mit seinem Team eigene automatische Theorembeweiser (für klassische und nichtklassische Logiken höherer Stufe) entwickelt und wendet diese in den genannten Bereichen an. Mediale Aufmerksamkeit erlangten vor allem Benzmüller's Studien zu Gödel’s ontologischem Argument für die Existenz Gottes im Computer. Das Anwendungsspektrum seiner Arbeiten ist weitreichend und betrifft unter anderem die Mechanisierung von ethisch-rechtlichem Schließen im Computer, z.B. zur intendierten Kontrolle von autonomen KI-Systemen.

Benzmüller sieht KI weniger als Technologie, sondern vielmehr als wissenschaftliche Disziplin, die sich stärker auf die Erforschung und das Experimentieren mit repräsentierenden Objekten konzentrieren sollte.* Für Benzmüller stellt gerade die Exploration und flexible Verarbeitung von repräsentierenden Objekten in Computern in Kombination mit hybrider KI (Verschmelzung von symbolischen und subsymbolischen Techniken) eine zentrale Herausforderung und Chance dar für die Modellierung (stark) intelligenter KI-Systeme. Explizite, deklarative Repräsentationen sind besonders relevant auch für die Realisierung vertrauenswürdiger, verantwortungsvoller KI-Systeme, da sie (normatives und anderes) Wissen nicht nur transparent und erklärbar, sondern auch effizient und robust zwischen Mensch und Maschine kommunizierbar machen.

Als Gastprofessor/Visiting Scholar hat Benzmüller an zahlreichen renommierten Universitäten im In- und Ausland geforscht und dabei ein enges Forschungsnetzwerk aufgebaut. Zu den Stationen seiner Karriere gehören: Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Luxemburg, Stanford University (USA), International University in Germany, Cambridge University (UK), University of Birmingham (UK), University of Edinburgh (UK) und Carnegie Mellon University (USA). Benzmüller studierte (1989-1995), promovierte (1999) und habilitierte (2006) an der Universität des Saarlandes.

Benzmüller’s Forschungsaktivitäten wurden gefördert u.a. von DFG (u.a. Heisenbergstipendium, Forschungstipendium, Sachbeihilfe, Sonderforschungsbereich), EPSRC/UK (Forschungsprojekt), Volkswagenstiftung (Experiment!), Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (Promotionsstipendium), ERC (Research Training Network), FNR/Luxemburg und BMBF.

Vor seiner akademischen Laufbahn war Christoph Benzmüller ein erfolgreicher Langstreckenläufer auf nationaler Ebene.

(*Der Begriff ,,repräsentierende Objekte'' geht auf den KI-Pionier Wolfgang Bibel zurück.) 

(Weitere Webseiten: Private-Webseite und FIS-Bamberg)

Publikationen (Aktuelle Auswahl)

Bayer, Jonas et al. (2024): Mathematical Proof Between Generations. In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society 71, S. 79–92.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2024): Who finds the short proof?: Searching for Wormholes in Proof-Space. In: Dagstuhl Reports 13, S. 6.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Andrews, Peter (2024): Church’s Type Theory. In: Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Fuenmayor, David/Lomfeld, Bertram (2024): Modelling Value-Oriented Legal Reasoning in LogiKEy. In: Logics 2, S. 31–78.

Parent, Xavier/Benzmüller, Christoph (2024): Conditional normative reasoning as a fragment of HOL (Isabelle/HOL dataset). In: Archive of Formal Proofs.

Solopova, Veronika et al. (2024a): Check News in One Click: NLP-Empowered Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Detection. arXiv. S. 1–8.

Solopova, Veronika et al. (2024b): Check News in One Click: NLP-Empowered Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Detection. In: Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations. St. Julians, Malta: Association for Computational Linguistics. S. 44–51.

Steen, Alexander/Benzmüller, Christoph (2024): What are Non-classical Logics and Why Do We Need Them?: An Extended Interview with Dov Gabbay and Leon van der Torre. In: Künstliche Intelligenz.

Passon, Oliver/Benzmüller, Christoph/Falkenburg, Brigitte (Hg.) (2023): On Gödel and the Nonexistence of Time: Gödel und die Nichtexistenz der Zeit; Kurt Gödel essay competition 2021: Kurt-Gödel-Preis 2021. 1. Aufl. Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum Berlin.

Baroni, Pietro/Benzmüller, Christoph/Wáng, Yì (Hg.) (2023): Journal of logic and computation. Eynsham, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Otten, Jens (Hg.) (2023): CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Aachen: RWTH Aachen.

Baroni, Pietro/Benzmüller, Christoph/N Wáng, Yì (2023): Preface: Special Issue on Logic and Argumentation. In: Journal of logic and computation, S. 1–3.

Bayer, Jonas et al. (2023a): Category Theory in Isabelle/HOL as a Basis for Meta-logical Investigation. arXiv.

Bayer, Jonas et al. (2023b): Category Theory in Isabelle/HOL as a Basis for Meta-logical Investigation. In: Intelligent Computer Mathematics: 16th International Conference, CICM 2023, Cambridge, UK, , September 5–8, 2023 Proceedings. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. S. 69–83.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2023a): A Simplified Variant of Gödel’s Ontological Argument. In: Vestrucci, Andrea (Hg.): Beyond Babel: Religion and Linguistic Pluralism. 1. Aufl. Cham: Springer International Publishing. S. 271–286.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2023b): Reasonable, Trusted AI through Symbolic Ethico-legal Control and Reflection? (Keynote Abstract). In: The Florida Artificial Interlligence Research Society. Florida: LibraryPress@UF.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2023c): Is HOL (as a metalogic) all we need for flexible normative reasoning?. In: Dagstuhl Reports. Wadern: Schloss Dagstuhl. S. 22.

Benzmüller, Christoph et al. (2023a): Category Theory in Isabelle/HOL as a Basis for Meta-logical Investigation. arXiv. S. 1–16.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Fuenmayor, David (2023): Mathematical Proof Assistants for Teaching Logic: the LogiKEy Methodology. In: Book of Abstracts: International Congress Tools for Teaching Logic V. Madrid. S. 1–3.

Benzmüller, Christoph et al. (2023b): Who Finds the Short Proof?. In: Logic journal of the IGPL, S. 1–23.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Reiche, Sebastian (2023): Automating public announcement logic with relativized common knowledge as a fragment of HOL in LogiKEy. In: Journal of Logic and Computation 33, S. 1243–1269.

Benzmüller, Christoph et al. (2023c): Automated Multilingual Detection of Pro-Kremlin Propaganda in Newspapers and Telegram Posts. In: Datenbank-Spektrum 25.

Parent, Xavier/Benzmüller, Christoph (2023a): Automated Verification of Deontic Correspondences in Isabelle/HOL: First Results. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Aachen, Germany: RWTH Aachen. S. 92–108.

Parent, Xavier/Benzmüller, Christoph (2023b): Normative Conditional Reasoning as a Fragment of HOL. Online: arXiv. S. 1–22.

Rothgang, Colin/Rabe, Florian/Benzmüller, Christoph (2023a): Theorem Proving in Dependently-Typed Higher-Order Logic. In: Automated Deduction – CADE 29: 29th International Conference on Automated Deduction, Rome, Italy, July 1–4, 2023, Proceedings. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. S. 438–455.

Rothgang, Colin/Rabe, Florian/Benzmüller, Christoph (2023b): Theorem Proving in Dependently-Typed Higher-Order Logic: Extended Preprint. arXiv.

Solopova, Veronika/Benzmüller, Christoph/Landgraf, Tim (2023): The Evolution of Pro-Kremlin Propaganda From a Machine Learning and Linguistics Perspective. In: Proceedings of the Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2023). Dubrovnik. S. 40–48.

Solopova, Veronika et al. (2023a): PapagAI: Automated Feedback for Reflective Essays. arXiv. S. 1–12.

Solopova, Veronika et al. (2023b): Automated multilingual detection of Pro-Kremlin propaganda in newspapers and Telegram posts. arXiv.

Solopova, Veronika et al. (2023c): PapagAI: Automated Feedback for Reflective Essays. In: KI 2023: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 46th German Conference on AI, Berlin, Germany, September 26–29, 2023; Proceedings. Cham: Springer. S. 198–206.

Steen, Alexander et al. (2023): Solving Modal Logic Problems by Translation to Higher-Order Logic. In: Herzig, Andreas/Luo, Jieting/Pardo, Pere (Hg.): Logic and Argumentation: 5th International Conference, CLAR 2023, Hangzhou, China, September 10-12, 2023; Proceedings. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. S. 25–43.

Bayer, Jonas et al. (2022): Mathematical Proof Between Generations. arXiv. S. 1–17.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2022a): Studies in Computational Metaphysics: Results of an Interdisciplinary Research Project. In: Cukierman, Henrique/Bertato, Fabio (Hg.): Tópicos em História e Filosofia da Computação. Campinas, Brasilien: University of Campinas (UNICAMP). S. 129–160.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2022b): A Simplified Variant of Gödel’s Ontological Argument. In: Zygon 57, S. 953–962.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2022c): Symbolic AI and Gödel’s Ontological Argument. In: Zygon 57.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Farjami, Ali/Parent, Xavier (2022): Dyadic Deontic Logic in HOL: Faithful Embedding and Meta-Theoretical Experiments. In: Rahman, Shahid/Armgardt, Matthias/Nordtveit Kvernenes, Hans Christian (Hg.): New developments in legal reasoning and logic: from ancient law to modern legal systems. Cham: Springer. S. 353–377.

Benzmüller, Christoph et al. (2022a): Automation of Boolos’ Curious Inference in Isabelle/HOL. In: Archive of Formal Proofs.

Benzmüller, Christoph et al. (2022b): Who Finds the Short Proof?: an Exploration of Variants of Boolos’ Curious Inference using Higher-order Automated Theorem Provers. arXiv.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2022): Higher-order Logic as a Lingua Franca for Logico-Pluralist Argumentation. In: Logics for New-Generation AI: Second International Workshop. 10-12 June 2022, Zhuhai. London: College Publications. S. 83–94.

Mucha, Henrik et al. (2022): Collaborative Speculations on Future Themes for Participatory Design in Germany. In: i-com 21, S. 283–298.

Steen, Alexander et al. (2022a): Automated Reasoning in Non-classical Logics in the TPTP World. arXiv.

Steen, Alexander et al. (2022b): Automated Reasoning in Non-classical Logics in the TPTP World. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Steen, Alexander et al. (2022c): Solving QMLTP Problems by Translation to Higher-order Logic. arXiv.

(2021): Logic and Argumentation: 4th International Conference, CLAR 2021, Hangzhou, China, October 20–22, 2021, Proceedings. Cham: Springer.

Passon, Oliver/Benzmüller, Christoph (Hg.) (2021): Wider den Reduktionismus: Ausgewählte Beiträge zum Kurt Gödel Preis 2019. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum.

Ammon, Sabine et al. (2021): KI als Laboratorium?: Ethik als Aufgabe!. Berlin.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2021): Exploring Simplified Variants of Gödel’s Ontological Argument in Isabelle/HOL. In: Archive of Formal Proofs.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Fuenmayor, David (2021a): Cantor’s Theorem without Reductio Ad Absurdum. Research Gate. S. 1–3.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Fuenmayor, David (2021b): Value-Oriented Legal Argumentation in Isabelle/HOL. In: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. S. 1–20.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Reiche, Sebastian (2021a): Automating Public Announcement Logic and the Wise Men Puzzle in Isabelle/HOL. In: Archive of Formal Proofs.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Reiche, Sebastian (2021b): Automating Public Announcement Logic with Relativized Common Knowledge as a Fragment of HOL in LogiKEy. Online: arXiv. S. 1–28.

Solopova, Veronika et al. (2021): A German Corpus of Reflective Sentences. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON). India (NLPAI): NLP Association of India (NLPAI). S. 593–600.

Steen, Alexander/Benzmüller, Christoph (2021): Extensional Higher-Order Paramodulation in Leo-III. In: Journal of Automated Reasoning, S. 775–807.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Miller, Bruce (Hg.) (2020): Intelligent Computer Mathematics: 13th International Conference, CICM 2020, Bertinoro, Italy, July 26-31, 2020, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2020a): A (Simplified) Supreme Being Necessarily Exists, says the Computer: Computationally Explored Variants of Gödel’s Ontological Argument. arXiv. S. 1–11.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2020b): A (Simplified) Supreme Being Necessarily Exists, says the Computer: Computationally Explored Variants of Gödel’s Ontological Argument. In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. IJCAI Organization. S. 779–789.

Benzmüller, Christoph et al. (2020): LogiKEy workbench: Deontic logics, logic combinations and expressive ethical and legal reasoning (Isabelle/HOL dataset). In: Data in Brief.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Fuenmayor, David (2020): Computer-supported Analysis of Positive Properties, Ultrafilters and Modal Collapse in Variants of Gödel’s Ontological Argument. In: Bulletin of the Section of Logic 49, S. 127–148.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Fuenmayor, David/Lomfeld, Bertram (2020): Modelling Value-oriented Legal Reasoning in LogiKEy. arXiv. S. 1–57.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Lomfeld, Bertram (2020a): Reasonable Machines: a Research Manifesto. In: KI 2020. Berlin: Springer. S. 251–258.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Lomfeld, Bertram (2020b): Reasonable Machines: a Research Manifesto. arXiv. S. 1–8.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Parent, Xavier/Ricca, Francesco (2020): Introduction to the Special Issue on Logic Rules and Reasoning: Selected Papers from the 2nd International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2018). In: Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. S. 1–3.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Parent, Xavier/van der Torre, Leendert (2020): Designing normative theories for ethical and legal reasoning: LogiKEy framework, methodology, and tool support. In: Artificial Intelligence.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Scott, Dana S. (2020): Automating Free Logic in HOL, with an Experimental Application in Category Theory. In: Journal of Automated Reasoning 64, S. 53–72.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020a): A Case Study on Computational Hermeneutics: E. J. Lowe’s Modal Ontological Argument. In: Silvestre, Ricardo Sousa et al. (Hg.): Beyond Faith and Rationality: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. Cham: Springer. S. 195–228.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020b): Computer-Supported Analysis of Arguments in Climate Engineering. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer. S. 104–115.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020c): Normative Reasoning with Expressive Logic Combinations. In: ECAI 2020. IOS Press. S. 2903–2904.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020d): Higher-order Logic as Lingua Franca: Integrating Argumentative Discourse and Deep Logical Analysis. arXiv. S. 1–35.

Makarenko, Irina/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020): Positive Free Higher-Order Logic and Its Automation via a Semantical Embedding. In: Lecture notes in computer science. Berlin: Springer. S. 116–131.

Reiche, Sebastian/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020a): Public Announcement Logic in HOL. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer. S. 222–238.

Reiche, Sebastian/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020b): Public Announcement Logic in HOL. arXiv. S. 1–17.

Steen, Alexander/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020a): On Reductions of Hintikka Sets for Higher-Order Logic. arXiv. S. 1–10.

Steen, Alexander/Benzmüller, Christoph (2020b): The Higher-Order Prover Leo-III. In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Amsterdam: IOS Press. S. 2937–2938.

Tiemens, Lucca et al. (2020): Computer-Supported Exploration of a Categorical Axiomatization of Modeloids. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer. S. 302–317.

(2019): Selected Student Contributions and Workshop Papers of LuxLogAI 2018. Kalpa Publications in Computing.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Stuckenschmidt, Heiner (Hg.) (2019): KI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence; 42nd German Conference on AI, Kassel, Germany, September 23-26, 2019, Proceedings. Cham: Springer.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2019a): Universal (meta-)logical reasoning: Recent successes. In: Science of computer programming 172, S. 48–62.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2019b): What is a proof? What should it be?. In: arXiv. arXiv.org.

Benzmüller, Christoph (2019c): Universal (meta-)logical reasoning: The Wise Men Puzzle (Isabelle/HOL dataset). In: Data in Brief 24.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Andrews, Peter (2019): Church’s Type Theory. In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Benzmüller, Christoph et al. (2019): I/O Logic in HOL. In: Journal of Applied Logics -- IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their Applications 6, S. 715–733.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Farjami, Ali/Parent, Xavier (2019): Aqvist’s Dyadic Deontic Logic E in HOL. In: Journal of Applied Logics -- IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their Applications 6, S. 733–755.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Fuenmayor, David (2019): Computer-supported Analysis of Positive Properties, Ultrafilters and Modal Collapse in Variants of Gödel’s Ontological Argument. arXiv.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Parent, Xavier/Ricca, Francesco (2019): Report on the Second International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning. In: AI Magazine 40, S. 73–74.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Parent, Xavier/van der Torre, Leendert (2019): Designing Normative Theories for Ethical and Legal Reasoning: LogiKEy Framework, Methodology, and Tool Support. arXiv. S. 1–50.

Benzmüller, Christoph/Sutcliffe, Geoff (2019): Explicit Normative Reasoning and Machine Ethics. In: Arcade 2019 Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary Achievements. S. 5.

Fuenmayor Pelaez, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2019): Mechanised Assessment of Complex Natural-Language Arguments Using Expressive Logic Combinations. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer. S. 112–128.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2019a): Harnessing Higher-Order (Meta-) Logic to Represent and Reason with Complex Ethical Theories. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer. S. 418–432.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2019b): A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach for Conceptual Explicitation. arXiv. S. 1–29.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2019c): A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach for Conceptual Explicitation. In: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Cham: Springer. S. 441–469.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2019d): Harnessing Higher-Order (Meta-)Logic to Represent and Reason with Complex Ethical Theories. arXiv. S. 1–14.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2019e): Computational Hermeneutics: an Integrated Approach for the Logical Analysis of Natural-Language Arguments. In: Logic in Asia. Singapore: Springer. S. 187–207.

Kirchner, Daniel/Benzmüller, Christoph/Zalta, Edward N. (2019a): Computer Science and Metaphysics: a Cross-Fertilization. In: Open Philosophy 2, S. 230–251.

Kirchner, Daniel/Benzmüller, Christoph/Zalta, Edward N. (2019b): Computer Science and Metaphysics: a Cross-Fertilization. arXiv. S. 1–39.

Kirchner, Daniel/Benzmüller, Christoph/Zalta, Edward N. (2019c): Mechanizing prinzipia Logico-Metaphysica in functional type-theory. In: The review of symbolic logic 13, S. 206–218.

Steen, Alexander/Benzmüller, Christoph (2019): Extensional Higher-Order Paramodulation in Leo-III. arXiv. S. 1–34.

Tiemens, Lucca et al. (2019a): Computer-supported Exploration of a Categorical Axiomatization of Modeloids. arXiv. S. 1–24.

Tiemens, Lucca et al. (2019b): Computer-supported Exploration of a Categorical Axiomatization of Modeloids. arXiv.

Zahoransky, Valeria (2019): Modelling the US Constitution to establish constitutional dictatorship. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Aachen, Germany: RWTH Aachen. S. 1–13.

Fuenmayor, David/Benzmüller, Christoph (2017): Automating Emendations of the Ontological Argument in Intensional Higher-Order Modal Logic. In: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Cham: Springer. S. 114–127.

Wisniewski, Max et al. (2016): Effective Normalization Techniques for HOL. In: Automated Reasoning — 8th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2016, Coimbra, Portugal, June 27 – July 2, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing. S. 362–370.