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For years, I've had a test-card at the start of my slides. Before I start my talk, I can immediately see if the aspect ratio is wrong, colours are off, or any other visual issues with the presentation.

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A few years ago I was invited to give a talk and was assured that the venue was set up for audio as well as video. I dutifully filled my slides with with demo videos containing sound. None of them worked. Somewhere between the HDMI output of the presentation laptop and the speakers, the audio went AWOL.

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Ever since then, I've placed an audio test slide at the start of my presentations. There's a good range of videos on YouTube - pick one you like, embed it into your slides, and play it before your talk starts.

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Over the years, I've found the following \"bugs\" with event AV setups:

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Whether events are professionally run or community managed, you can never guarantee that sound will work. Add subtitles to your videos. If possible, add a sign-language interpreter. And, if all else fails, hold your microphone to your laptop's speakers.

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If you're reading this, you're part of RSS Club! A top secret society of cool people who subscribe to my feed. This post is not available on the web or via email.

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I've been playing about with Rogue Scholar. It's an open-access publication which allows blogs to get a persistent Digital Object Identifier.

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If I've set everything up correctly (not a given) then all new posts on this site will be issued with a DOI. Hopefully, this will not include RSS Club posts - as I'd like to keep them as a special private treat just between you and me.

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I'm in the process of writing a WordPress plugin to retrieve the DOI and add it to posts. I'm not sure if there's a sensible way to add it into an RSS feed, but I'll give it a go.

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Will this be useful? I don't know. My posts sometimes get referenced in proper academic works - I'm not sure if this'll make any difference to that. But it is nice to experiment with these things.

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If you have any experience with DOI or Rogue Scholar - please get in touch.

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Thanks for being a member of RSS Club - you rock \ud83d\ude03

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Unsere monatliche Rubrik zu aktuellen Veranstaltungen rund um Open Research.

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Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine \u00dcbersicht \u00fcber Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die \u00d6ffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind f\u00fcr Angeh\u00f6rige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin. Wir erg\u00e4nzen diese Liste gerne (Info bitte via Mail ans OROB).
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30. September bis 2. Oktober, Zugang gestalten! – Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerung, Berlin

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Wie gehen Einrichtungen des Kulturerbes mit den Zeugnissen der Vergangenheit um? Nutzen sie diese, um bestimmte Sichtweisen historischer Entwicklungen zu st\u00fctzen, oder \u00fcberlassen sie die Bewertung den Nutzenden und erm\u00f6glichen vor allem den Zugang zu den Quellen? W\u00e4hrend Museen mit kuratierten Ausstellungen h\u00e4ufig st\u00e4rker interpretierend arbeiten, verstehen sich Archive und Bibliotheken traditionell eher als Einrichtungen, die sich auf den Zugang zu ihren Best\u00e4nden konzentrieren. Diese Rollenverteilung ger\u00e4t jedoch unter Druck, wenn es um ein schwieriges Erbe \u2013 etwa rassistische oder antisemitische Zeugnisse \u2013 geht: Archive werden kritisiert, wenn sie scheinbar ungefilterten Zugang gew\u00e4hren, w\u00e4hrend zugleich geschichtspolitische Eingriffe in Kulturerbeeinrichtungen kontrovers diskutiert werden.

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1. Oktober, OER-Fachtag, online

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2026 findet die dritte Ausgabe des gro\u00dfen OER-Fachtags von ORCA.nrw statt. Freuen Sie sich \u00fcber den Tag hinweg auf eine spannende Keynote, Projektvorstellungen, Workshops und viel Austausch & Vernetzung!

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1. Oktober, Sicherung von Identit\u00e4t, Autorenschaft und Quellen, TU Berlin

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Im Vortrag wird, ankn\u00fcpfend an das Blockchain-Projekt f\u00fcr digitale Zeugnisse, die EUDI-Wallet thematisiert. Die Historie der Entwicklung dieser digitalen Brieftasche auf EU-Ebene wird vorgestellt und die Funktionen und M\u00f6glichkeiten sowie Detailinformationen zur Sicherheit werden erl\u00e4utert. Der aktuelle Stand der Entwicklung wird betrachtet und in Form einer Demo wird die Nutzung an einem konkreten Beispiel veranschaulicht. Nach einem Blick auf zuk\u00fcnftige Entwicklungen im Bereich \"Digitaler Identit\u00e4ten\", wie z. B. Post-Quanten-Verschl\u00fcsselung oder Alternative Biometrische Identifikationsverfahren (AuBi) schlie\u00dft der Abend mit Raum f\u00fcr Diskussionen \u00fcber die Technologie und deren Nutzung.

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1. Oktober, KI und Demokratie: Rechtsstaat, Teilhabe und Nachhaltigkeit, ECDF Berlin

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Der Einsatz von KI Technologien erstreckt sich zunehmend auf zentrale Bereiche politischer Steuerung, von der \u00f6ffentlichen Verwaltung und der Umweltpolitik bis hin zu Grenzregimen und wirtschaftlicher Regulierung. Dabei ver\u00e4ndern sie nicht nur Verfahren; es verschieben sich Machtkonstellationen, Verantwortung und politische Handlungsspielr\u00e4ume. Das Symposium mit \u00f6ffentlicher Paneldiskussion diskutiert KI als systemische Herausforderung f\u00fcr Demokratie und Rechtsstaat. Die Veranstaltung bietet kurze Einf\u00fchrungen in verschiedene Schwerpunkte unserer Forschung und erm\u00f6glicht eine kollaborative Plattform zur Diskussion der systemischen Kosten algorithmischer Governance f\u00fcr demokratische Strukturen. Dies schafft einen offenen Raum f\u00fcr Austausch mit politischen Entscheidungstr\u00e4ger*innen, Vertreter*innen von NGOs, Forschenden sowie allen, die an der Zukunft einer digitalen Gesellschaft interessiert sind.

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1.-2. Oktober, Was kostet und wie nachhaltig ist digitale Kultur?, BBAW

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Das Digitale ist ein gro\u00dfes Versprechen: Physische R\u00e4ume und pers\u00f6nliche Speichermedien scheinen ganz \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig zu werden, die Cloud soll ortsunabh\u00e4ngigen, schnellen Zugriff und unbegrenzten Speicherplatz erm\u00f6glichen. Aber was kostet das, welche L\u00f6sungen sind sicher und umweltvertr\u00e4glich?\u00a0Gemeinsam mit bestandserhaltenden Einrichtungen und Vertreter:innen aus Wissenschaft und Forschung wollen wir das Versprechen des Digitalen \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen und konstruktive Vorschl\u00e4ge zur longue dur\u00e9e des digitalen Erbes entwickeln. Es sprechen u.v. a.: Frank Scholze (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek), Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library Oxford) und Petra Gehring (Rat f\u00fcr Informationsinfrastrukturen).

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2. Oktober, Anti-Konferenz: Scheitern in den Digital Humanities, Mehringhof Berlin-Kreuzberg

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5. Oktober, Open Science Forum Mitteldeutschland, Leipzig

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Das Open Science Forum Mitteldeutschland 2026 bringt am 5. Oktober Interessierte zu einem offenen Austausch \u00fcber Open Science als Gestaltungsaufgabe zusammen. Wir widmen uns der Frage, welche Rolle wissenschaftsunterst\u00fctzende Einrichtungen spielen, wenn es um neue Ans\u00e4tze in der Forschungsbewertung, nachhaltige Infrastrukturen und digitale Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t im Spannungsfeld geopolitischer Entwicklungen geht.

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8. Oktober, Originale erhalten: Demokratie sichern, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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In Archiven, Bibliotheken und anderen Ged\u00e4chtniseinrichtungen lagern bundesweit gef\u00e4hrdete Originale, die Meinungsvielfalt, Rechtsordnungen, historische Entwicklungen und politisches Handeln dokumentieren. Der Erhalt dieser \u00dcberlieferungen ist Grundvoraussetzung f\u00fcr eine quellen- und faktenbasierte Forschung, eine historische Aufarbeitung sowie die Sichtbarmachung gesellschaftlicher Mehrstimmigkeit und Diskurse. Originalerhalt ist grundlegender Bestandteil der Informationssicherung und ein wichtiger Beitrag zu einer lebendigen, urteilsf\u00e4higen und wehrhaften Demokratie \u2013 insbesondere angesichts der zunehmenden Bedrohung durch hybride Desinformation und andere demokratiegef\u00e4hrdende Entwicklungen.

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15. Oktober, FDM-Sprechstunde Humanities@NFDI, online

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Die FDM-Sprechstunde Humanities@NFDI ist eine Online-Beratung f\u00fcr Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende aus Forschungs- und Sammlungsinstitutionen zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. Expert:innen aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen NFDI-Konsortien NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Objects und Text+ stehen f\u00fcr Ihre Fragen zu allen Themen rund ums Forschungsdatenmanagement bereit. Bei Bedarf k\u00f6nnen Einzelgespr\u00e4che in Breakoutr\u00e4umen vertieft werden.

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19.-25. Oktober, International Open Access Week: The Cost of Knowledge, online und an diversen Orten

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Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year's theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge\u2014particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests. Last year's theme of \"Who owns our knowledge?\" reflected on the reality of commercial ownership of knowledge. This year's theme will reckon with the costs of that reality and avenues for reclaiming control of these systems meant to serve the public interest.

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21. Oktober, Aktionstag Forschungsdaten@BUA, FU Berlin

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Der Aktionstag \"Forschungsdaten@BUA\" l\u00e4dt erstmals Forschende der Berlin University Alliance herzlich ein, \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten ins Gespr\u00e4ch zu kommen, sich auszutauschen und zu vernetzen. Ziel ist es, Best Practices sichtbar zu machen, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und den Dialog \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten \u00fcber die vier BUA-H\u00e4user hinweg auszubauen.

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19. Oktober, Rechtssichere Anwendung von K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz im Forschungsdatenmanagement, HU Berlin

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In diesem Workshop lernen die Teilnehmenden datenschutzkonforme KI-Anwendungen und Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten kennen, die neue Wege f\u00fcr die Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten erm\u00f6glichen und zur Verbesserung von Datenqualit\u00e4t, Metadatenverf\u00fcgbarkeit und Zug\u00e4nglichkeit beitragen. Mithilfe konkreter Anwendungsf\u00e4lle aus der Forschung werden die rechtssicheren Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten der KI im Datenlebenzyklus vorgestellt.

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20. Oktober, OpenRefine \u2013 Effiziente Datenbereinigung f\u00fcr das Forschungsdatenmanagement, HU Berlin

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Der Workshop f\u00fchrt in die Grundfunktionen von OpenRefine ein und zeigt an konkreten Anwendungsf\u00e4llen, wie Forschende tabellarische Datens\u00e4tze bereinigen, strukturieren und anreichern k\u00f6nnen. Dabei werden auch geskriptete Bearbeitungsschritte sowie der Import und Export verschiedener Datenformate (CSV, XML, JSON) behandelt. OpenRefine erm\u00f6glicht nicht nur einen schnellen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber gro\u00dfe Datens\u00e4tze, sondern hilft vor allem bei heterogenen und historisch gewachsenen Datens\u00e4tze, die oft inkonsistente Metadaten aufweisen.

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20. Oktober, Introduction to electronic lab notebooks (ELN), online

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Der Workshop gibt einen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber ELN-Konzepte, zeigt relevante Forschungsdatenmanagement-Aspekte auf und bietet eine praktische Einf\u00fchrung.

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22. Oktober, FAIR und reproduzierbar: Tidy Data, Versionskontrolle & Wikidata in der Forschungspraxis, online

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Im Rahmen dieses Hands-on-Workshops werden Konzepte zum effizienten, reproduzierbaren und nachvollziehbaren Arbeiten mit Forschungsdaten vermittelt. Ziel ist es, die Teilnehmenden mit verschiedenen Werkzeugen vertraut zu machen und das Bewusstsein f\u00fcr Computational Thinking, Automatisierung sowie die Optimierung eigener Arbeitsprozesse zu sch\u00e4rfen.

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26. Oktober, Urheberrecht in der Forschung: Daten sicher nutzen, teilen, publizieren, FU Berlin

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Im Forschungsalltag stehen Forschende regelm\u00e4\u00dfig vor urheberrechtlichen Fragen: Welche Inhalte darf ich in meiner Arbeit verwenden? Unter welchen Bedingungen kann ich Daten und Materialien offen teilen? Wie gehe ich mit KI-Tools und deren Trainingsdaten rechtssicher um? Dieser Workshop bietet praxisnahe Orientierung f\u00fcr den sicheren Umgang mit gesch\u00fctzten Inhalten und Lizenzen in der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit.

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10., 17.,\u00a024. November, Workshop Series „AI in Research Data Management: Balancing Efficiency and Responsibility“, online

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In our three-part workshop series, we explore the relationship between the technical aspects, practical applications and critical reflection of the use of AI in research data management. Participants will learn about various AI tools and use cases for research data management, test, and develop criteria for the meaningful and responsible use of AI in their own work.

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weiter zu November 2026 [in K\u00fcrze]

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\"Diese Auszeichnung zeigt, wie wichtig disziplin\u00fcbergreifende Zusammenarbeit f\u00fcr den Kulturwandel in der Rechtswissenschaft ist. Evin und Philipp stehen genau f\u00fcr das, wof\u00fcr VEStOR steht\", so Prof. Dr. Ellen Euler von der Fachhochschule Potsdam und Projektleiterin von VEStOR.
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Evin Dalkilic (ORCID: 0009-0008-2234-2323) setzte sich beim Verfassungsblog im Rahmen mehrerer Projekte \u2013 darunter ELADOAH, OZOR und VEStOR \u2013 \u00fcber viele Jahre f\u00fcr einen Kulturwandel in der Rechtswissenschaft ein. Ihre Perspektive beschreibt sie folgenderma\u00dfen:
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\"Bildungschancen sind in Deutschland ungleich verteilt \u2013 wer keinen privilegierten Zugang hat, ist strukturell benachteiligt. Open Access kann das ausgleichen, deshalb setze ich mich f\u00fcr offene rechtswissenschaftliche Bildungsmaterialien f\u00fcr alle ein\", so Evin Dalkilic.
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Philipp Falkenburg (ORCID: 0000-0001-9788-8277) arbeitet als Informationswissenschaftler bei der Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg und hat sich, wie nur wenige Nichtjurist:innen, tief in die Forschungslogik und Arbeitsprozesse der Rechtswissenschaft eingearbeitet und diese konstruktiv weiterentwickelt:
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\"Ich sehe mich als Br\u00fcckenbauer zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Informationswissenschaft liefert das Ger\u00fcst, ohne das Open Access nicht funktioniert\", so Philipp Falkenburg.
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Das Gedenkstipendium erinnert an Prof. Dr. Daniel H\u00fcrlimann (1985\u20132022), Mitbegr\u00fcnder des jurOA-Netzwerks und erster Schweizer Professor f\u00fcr Rechtsinformatik. Es wird an Wissenschaftler*innen und Engagierte zur W\u00fcrdigung eines herausragenden Einsatzes f\u00fcr Open Access in der Rechtswissenschaft bzw. den offenen Zugang zu rechtswissenschaftlichem Wissen vergeben.
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Der Ende Juli verabschiedete Regierungsentwurf des KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetzes (KIMVG) will eine breite Rechtsgrundlage f\u00fcr den Einsatz von K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in Visa-, Aufenthalts- und Asylverfahren schaffen. Der Gesetzesentwurf sieht vor, personenbezogene Daten f\u00fcr die Entwicklung eigener KI-Systeme zu verarbeiten, Antr\u00e4ge automatisiert mit \u00f6ffentlich zug\u00e4nglichen Internetquellen abzugleichen und ein KI-gest\u00fctztes Verfahrensmonitoring einzuf\u00fchren. Die Bundesregierung begr\u00fcndet das Gesetz mit dem Verweis auf knappe Ressourcen und dem Ziel, Effizienz, Qualit\u00e4t und Sicherheit der Verfahren zu verbessern. Gleichzeitig weisen zivilgesellschaftliche Akteur*innen auf rechtliche L\u00fccken, zu weitreichende Befugnisse und eine Vielzahl offener Fragen hin. Dieser Blogpost analysiert die Grundelemente des KIMVG, gibt einen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber die Einsch\u00e4tzungen und Kritik der Zivilgesellschaft und diskutiert die Wichtigkeit einer breiten gesellschaftlichen Beteiligung bei der Diskussion \u00fcber die Regulierung von KI-Systemen in der Migrations- und Asylverwaltung.

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Am 29.07.2026 beschloss das Bundeskabinett den Regierungsentwurf des sogenannten KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetzes (KIMVG), der zu einer Weichenstellung f\u00fcr die Zukunft der deutschen Asyl- und Migrationsverwaltung werden k\u00f6nnte. Mit \u00c4nderungen und Erg\u00e4nzungen des Asylgesetzes und des Aufenthaltsgesetzes will der Entwurf eine breite Rechtsgrundlage f\u00fcr den Einsatz von KI in der Migrationsverwaltung schaffen, konkret bei Visa-, Aufenthalts- und Asylverfahren. Dies betrifft insbesondere drei Punkte: Erstens, ein \"automatisiertes Verfahrensmonitoring\", bei dem abgeschlossene Verfahren KI-gest\u00fctzt ausgewertet werden sollen, um Entscheidungsstrukturen zu identifizieren und Potenziale f\u00fcr Standardisierung und Beschleunigung zu erkennen. Zweitens \u2013 bei begr\u00fcndeten Zweifeln \u2013 ein automatisierter Abgleich von Angaben mit Quellen aus dem Internet, zum Beispiel aus sozialen Netzwerken. Drittens, eine Nutzung von personenbezogenen Daten, um beh\u00f6rdliche KI-Systeme zuk\u00fcnftig zu trainieren, zu validieren und zu testen. Das beim Bundesministerium des Inneren (BMI) angesiedelte Gesetzgebungsverfahren geht auf ein Eckpunktepapier des BMI und des Ausw\u00e4rtigen Amts (AA) von 2025 zur\u00fcck. Nach Ver\u00f6ffentlichung des ersten Referentenentwurfs des KIMVG am 25.06.2026 wurden eine Reihe von Verb\u00e4nden und zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen um Stellungnahme innerhalb einer Woche gebeten. Die Kurzfristigkeit wurde von allen stellungnehmenden Akteur*innen kritisiert. Der Deutsche Caritasverband e.V. schreibt beispielsweise, dass \"eine vertiefte fachliche und rechtliche Pr\u00fcfung des Entwurfs [angesichts der au\u00dferordentlich kurzen Frist] nicht m\u00f6glich war\". Als n\u00e4chste Schritte im Gesetzgebungsverfahren folgen Abstimmungen im Bundestag und Bundesrat \u2013 eine genaue Timeline ist jedoch zum aktuellen Zeitpunkt ungewiss.

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Was versteht die Bundesregierung als zentrales Problem?

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Bereits das Eckpunktepapier von AA und BMI von 2025 begr\u00fcndet die Notwendigkeit f\u00fcr KI und Automatisierung mit Verweis auf \"gesteigerte Effizienz\" und \"mehr Sicherheit\". Durch (Teil-)Automatisierung sollen Verfahren \"schneller und weniger ressourcenintensiv\" und Wartezeiten verk\u00fcrzt werden, wodurch insbesondere die Fachkr\u00e4fteeinwanderung profitiere. Ebenso verweist der Regierungsentwurf des KIMVG auf \"stetig steigende Antragsaufkommen\", begrenzte personelle und organisatorische Kapazit\u00e4ten, sowie eine uneinheitliche Verwaltungspraxis und Rechtsanwendung. Das Gesetz solle nun einen \"rechtssicheren und datenschutzkonformen Rahmen\" schaffen, um \"durch den Einsatz digitaler Verfahren \u2013 insbesondere K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz \u2013 die Effizienz, Einheitlichkeit, Qualit\u00e4t und Sicherheit\" der Verfahren zu erh\u00f6hen.

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Der Regierungsentwurf des KIMVG wird damit durchg\u00e4ngig mit einer bestimmten Problemdiagnose begr\u00fcndet: Komplexe rechtliche Vorgaben, die Vielzahl von Antragsstrecken und Antr\u00e4gen f\u00fchrten zu einer uneinheitlichen Verwaltungspraxis; ohne strukturelle Anpassungen sei angesichts begrenzter Ressourcen eine zus\u00e4tzliche Belastung der Verfahren absehbar. Diese Diagnose trifft ein reales Problem: Der \u00f6ffentliche Dienst in Deutschland und insbesondere die Ausl\u00e4nderbeh\u00f6rden leiden unter Personalmangel, und langwierige Verfahren belasten sowohl Antragsstellende als auch die zust\u00e4ndigen Beamt*innen. Was die Antragszahlen betrifft, ist die Faktenlage jedoch weniger eindeutig. Die Gesamtzahl der Asylantr\u00e4ge beispielsweise sank von 330.000 im Jahr 2023 auf rund 130.000 im Jahr 2025.

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Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es bemerkenswert, dass der Entwurf KI als einzig denkbare und kostenneutrale L\u00f6sung darstellt und dabei zus\u00e4tzliche Ressourcen f\u00fcr die Ausl\u00e4nderbeh\u00f6rden oder vereinfachte Verfahrensregeln als Alternativen ebenso ausblendet wie die Kosten, die mit der Einf\u00fchrung von KI einhergehen werden. Die Forschung warnt vor der Annahme, dass die Einf\u00fchrung von KI in der \u00f6ffentlichen Verwaltung automatisch Kosteneinsparungen und Effizienzgewinne mit sich bringt. Wie auch die Deutsche Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) in ihrer Stellungnahme zum Regierungsentwurf anmerkt, erfordert eine weitergehende Digitalisierung und die Einf\u00fchrung von KI in der deutschen Migrationsverwaltung zun\u00e4chst zus\u00e4tzliches Personal, Schulungen und technische Infrastruktur \u2013 Kosten, die der Entwurf nicht ber\u00fccksichtigt. Die Argumentation im Entwurf steht f\u00fcr eine allgemeinere Tendenz, ein im Kern politisches Problem \u2013 Personalmangel, Ressourcenverteilung, komplexe verwaltungs- und rechtstechnische Sachverhalte \u2013 vorrangig durch neue Technologie l\u00f6sen zu wollen.

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Was kritisieren Interessengruppen und Zivilgesellschaft?

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Im Rahmen des Gesetzgebungsprozesses ver\u00f6ffentlichte das BMI sechs Stellungnahmen von Bundesvereinigungen, Verb\u00e4nden und B\u00fcrgerrechtsorganisationen: der AWO Bundesverband e.V., die Bundesvereinigung der kommunalen Spitzenverb\u00e4nde, die Deutsche Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) e.V., der Deutsche Caritasverband e.V., Pro Asyl sowie Statefree e.V. Dar\u00fcber hinaus kommentierten weitere Akteur*innen den Gesetzesentwurf auf ihren eigenen Webseiten, wie beispielsweise netzpolitik.org, AlgorithmWatch oder auch die Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Informatik e.V.

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Mehrere Verb\u00e4nde erkennen an, dass die Digitalisierung der Migrationsverwaltung dringend n\u00f6tig ist, um Verfahren zu beschleunigen. Dennoch dominiert in den Stellungnahmen eine eher kritische Haltung, insbesondere mit Blick auf drei Punkte: (1) den fehlenden und unzureichenden Rechtsschutz; (2) Risiken von Diskriminierung und Bias; und (3) die Vagheit des Entwurfs, auch hinsichtlich der Entscheidungsmacht von KI-Systemen.

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Ein erster Kritikpunkt, der sich durch nahezu alle Stellungnahmen der Verb\u00e4nde zieht, betrifft die Vereinbarkeit mit Datenschutz, Verfassungsrecht und EU-Recht. Mehrere Verb\u00e4nde \u00e4u\u00dfern datenschutzrechtliche Bedenken, da die Nutzung personenbezogener Daten insgesamt zu umfassend sei. Der Entwurf erlaubt, unter bestimmten Umst\u00e4nden, auch die Verwendung nicht anonymisierter Daten. Hinsichtlich des Verfahrensmonitorings sollen selbst biometrische Daten weiterverarbeitet werden k\u00f6nnen, wenn ihre Aussonderung \"technisch unm\u00f6glich ist oder unverh\u00e4ltnism\u00e4\u00dfig hohen technischen Aufwand erfordert\". Auch ist fraglich, ob sensible, personenbezogene Daten wieder vollst\u00e4ndig gel\u00f6scht werden k\u00f6nnen, nachdem sie f\u00fcr die Entwicklung von KI-Systemen und insbesondere von Large Language Models (LLMs) genutzt wurden \u2013 Modelle, die basierend auf gro\u00dfen Datenmengen darauf abzielen, menschliche Sprache zu analysieren und zu generieren. Laut Pro Asyl verfehle der Entwurf au\u00dferdem die Anforderungen an gerechte und faire Verwaltungsverfahren im Sinne grundrechtskonformer Verfahrensgestaltung und effektiven Rechtsschutzes und schaffe stattdessen die Grundlage f\u00fcr \"intransparente, algorithmisch gesteuerte Entscheidungsprozesse\". Zwar postuliert der Entwurf, allgemein mit dem EU-Recht konform zu sein, doch werden mehreren Verb\u00e4nden und auch Wissenschaftler*innen zufolge Vorgaben hinsichtlich der EU Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) und der EU KI-Verordnung (KI-VO) missachtet. So beruft sich der Gesetzentwurf beispielsweise auf \u00a7 10 Abs. 3 der KI-VO, wonach Trainingsdaten \"relevant, hinreichend repr\u00e4sentativ, fehlerfrei und vollst\u00e4ndig\" sein m\u00fcssen. Wie die Deutsche Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) in ihrer Stellungnahme betont, ist dies im Migrationskontext eine hohe H\u00fcrde: Das Ausl\u00e4nderzentralregister (AZR), das weitgehend auf denselben Datenquellen basiert, mit denen die KI sehr wahrscheinlich trainiert werden w\u00fcrde, weist bekannterma\u00dfen erhebliche Genauigkeitsdefizite auf, die dadurch versch\u00e4rft werden, dass sich viele der relevanten Merkmale schnell \u00e4ndern und veralten.

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Ein zweiter akteurs\u00fcbergreifender Kritikpunkt betrifft Fragen rund um Diskriminierung und Bias der geplanten KI-Systeme. Der Entwurf nimmt die Beh\u00f6rden in die Pflicht, keine diskriminierenden Algorithmen herauszubilden oder zu verwenden, ohne jedoch zu erl\u00e4utern, wie das sichergestellt werden soll. Konkret besteht hier ein zentrales technisches Problem: Gro\u00dfe Sprachmodelle generieren Outputs durch erlernte Muster und statistische Wahrscheinlichkeiten auf Grundlage von Trainingsdaten. Werden umfassende Daten aus bereits abgeschlossenen Verfahren als Grundlage f\u00fcr ein KI-Training genutzt, k\u00f6nnten bereits existierende Verzerrungen reproduziert werden. So k\u00f6nne die Datengrundlage bei der KI-Entwicklung je nach Auswahl diskriminierende Stereotype widerspiegeln oder festigen, warnt Pro Asyl. Eine wirksame Gegenma\u00dfnahme bestehe, der Deutschen Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) zufolge, beispielsweise in verpflichtenden, externen und unabh\u00e4ngigen Kontrollverfahren.

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Ein dritter Kritikpunkt der Organisationen betrifft die Vagheit und mangelnde Bestimmtheit des Entwurfs, insbesondere mit Blick auf die Frage, wie viel Entscheidungsmacht KI-Systeme in Verfahren perspektivisch h\u00e4tten. Laut Entwurf verbleiben individuelle verfahrenstechnische Entscheidungen weiterhin in menschlicher Verantwortung und das BMI betont im Regierungsentwurf, dass \"die individuelle Pr\u00fcfung vollst\u00e4ndig in der Verantwortung der zust\u00e4ndigen Mitarbeitenden liege\". Hier kritisieren Verb\u00e4nde allerdings, dass unklar bleibt, wie dem sogenannten Automation-Bias vorgebeugt werden soll \u2013 also der Tendenz, maschinellen Entscheidungen eher zu vertrauen als dem menschlichen Urteil. Ohne flankierende Ma\u00dfnahmen k\u00f6nnten Entscheidungen so faktisch KI-basiert erfolgen. Die Stellungnahmen fordern hier mehrfach eine verbindliches Human-in-the-Loop-Prinzip und eine klarere Definition des Verh\u00e4ltnisses zwischen der KI-Nutzung f\u00fcr das allgemeine Verfahrensmonitoring und der Einzelfallentscheidung.

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Unklarheiten bestehen jedoch nicht nur hinsichtlich der Entscheidungsmacht, sondern ziehen sich durch den gesamten Regierungsentwurf. Die Verb\u00e4nde kritisieren, dass weitreichende Rechtsgrundlagen f\u00fcr den KI-Einsatz geschaffen werden, ohne hinreichend festzulegen, welche konkreten Systeme k\u00fcnftig f\u00fcr welche Zwecke eingesetzt werden d\u00fcrfen und wo ihre Grenzen liegen. Der AWO Bundesverband e.V. bem\u00e4ngelt entsprechend, dass von regelbasierter Dokumentenerkennung bis zur vollautomatisierten Risikoeinsch\u00e4tzung nahezu alle Szenarien denkbar seien.

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Angesichts dieser sich durch den Entwurf ziehenden Unklarheiten fordern Verb\u00e4nde teils eine intensive \u00dcberarbeitung, teils ein Zur\u00fcckziehen des Entwurfs.

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Was dar\u00fcber hinaus noch offen bleibt

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\u00dcber die drei zentralen Kritikpunkte der Zivilgesellschaft und Interessengruppen hinaus l\u00e4sst der Entwurf eine lange Liste weiterer Fragen unbeantwortet. Welche Transparenzma\u00dfnahmen w\u00fcrden f\u00fcr Migrantinnen und Asylbewerberinnen gelten, deren F\u00e4lle analysiert werden? Wie w\u00fcrden Sachbearbeiter*innen im Umgang mit diesen Systemen geschult? Wie lie\u00dfe sich verhindern, dass im Zuge einer uneinheitlich fortschreitenden Digitalisierung parallele, inkompatible Systeme zwischen den Beh\u00f6rden entstehen? Wie w\u00fcrden die Systeme der Komplexit\u00e4t unterschiedlicher Verfahrensarten und individueller Umst\u00e4nde gerecht werden?

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Bei vielen der Vorschl\u00e4ge des Entwurfs h\u00e4ngt es au\u00dferdem von der technischen Ausgestaltung und flankierenden Ma\u00dfnahmen, zum Beispiel Schulungen ab, wie rechtskonform und gewinnbringend sie f\u00fcr die Verwaltung aber auch Antragsstellende sein k\u00f6nnen. Das automatisierte Verfahrensmonitoring beispielsweise ist laut Entwurf auf die Gewinnung \"verallgemeinerungsf\u00e4higer Erkenntnisse\" ausgerichtet. Einerseits kann die Analyse vergangener Entscheidungen dazu beitragen, Inkonsistenzen, Diskriminierungsmuster oder strukturelle Fehlentwicklungen in der bisherigen Entscheidungspraxis sichtbar zu machen. Andererseits kann dieselbe Analyse eine normalisierende Wirkung entfalten, indem bestehende Entscheidungsmuster zum Ausgangspunkt f\u00fcr die Weiterentwicklung zuk\u00fcnftiger Verfahren werden. Insbesondere in Asylverfahren, in denen Anerkennungsquoten auch f\u00fcr Personen der gleichen Nationalit\u00e4t, mit \u00e4hnlichen Schutzgesuchen von politischen Faktoren beeinflusst werden und \u00fcber die Zeit variieren k\u00f6nnen, stellt sich die Frage, wie genau \"Muster\" erkannt und aktuelle Entscheidungspraktiken beeinflussen sollen.

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Nat\u00fcrlich l\u00e4sst sich nicht erwarten, dass ein Gesetzentwurf all diese Fragen bereits abschlie\u00dfend beantwortet. Bemerkenswert ist dennoch, wie unbestimmt der Entwurf an zentralen Stellen bleibt. Der Umfang dieser offenen Fragen ist selbst Teil der Kritik, wie auch zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und Wissenschaftler*innen anmerken: Ein Gesetz, das eine dauerhafte Rechtsgrundlage f\u00fcr den Einsatz von KI in der Migrationsverwaltung schaffen soll, \u00fcberl\u00e4sst zahlreiche operative Details \u2013 jene Details also, die dar\u00fcber entscheiden w\u00fcrden, ob die Systeme in der Praxis fair, nachvollziehbar und wirksam sind und wie stark KI die tats\u00e4chliche Entscheidungsfindung beeinflusst \u2013 einer sp\u00e4teren Kl\u00e4rung.

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KI in der Migrationsverwaltung weiterdenken

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Neben Kritikpunkten an dem konkreten Gesetzentwurf kristallisieren sich auch einige grunds\u00e4tzliche Fragen sowohl zum Prozess der Gesetzfindung als auch allgemein zum Einsatz von KI in der Migrationsverwaltung heraus. In Zeiten, in denen Digitalisierung bereits ein nicht wegzudenkender Bestandteil in der Gesellschaft scheint, geht es dabei vor allem um die Frage wie diese neue Dimension der Digitalisierung gestaltet werden kann, wer dabei beteiligt werden sollte und was wir aus anderen Kontexten lernen k\u00f6nnen.

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Fragen dieser Tragweite w\u00fcrden eigentlich eine breite gesellschaftspolitische Debatte erfordern. Eine solche Debatte hat bislang jedoch kaum stattgefunden \u2013 die Bundesregierung treibt den Gesetzgebungsprozess stattdessen mit erkennbarem zeitlichem Druck voran, was sich auch in der kurzen Beteiligungsfrist der Verb\u00e4nde widerspiegelt. Der Zeitdruck auf Seiten der Regierung geht bereits aus dem Eckpunktepapier von AA und BMI von 2025 hervor, wenn beispielsweise ein \"schneller, wirksamer und sicherer Modernisierungserfolg\" als erkl\u00e4rtes Ziel formuliert wird. Auch sah das Papier f\u00fcr den Sommer dieses Jahres eigentlich bereits die Verabschiedung des Gesetzes durch den Bundestag vor.

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Dem entgegen steht die Position, wonach eine potenziell so grundlegende Neuausrichtung der Migrationsverwaltung und Entscheidungspraxis durch zentrale Akteur*innen des Politikfeldes vorbereitet und durch den Gesetzgebungsprozess hinweg begleitet werden muss. So fordert der AWO Bundesverband e.V. beispielsweise \"eine sorgf\u00e4ltige rechtliche, ethische und praktische Pr\u00fcfung\", die viele der grunds\u00e4tzlichen Fragen vor einer Einf\u00fchrung von KI-Systemen beleuchten m\u00fcsse. Konkret schl\u00e4gt der Verband deshalb eine unabh\u00e4ngige und interdisziplin\u00e4r besetzte Expert*innenkommission vor, um zun\u00e4chst zu pr\u00fcfen, \"ob und unter welchen Voraussetzungen der Einsatz von KI-Systemen in Verwaltungsverfahren mit den Anforderungen des Rechtsstaats sowie den Rechten der Betroffenen vereinbar ist\". Offen bleibt zudem, welche Akteur*innen die von KI-Systemen Betroffenen angemessen repr\u00e4sentieren k\u00f6nnen bzw. wie Migrant*innen selbst \u2013 beispielsweise durch Akteur*innen wie das Refugee Advisory Board (RAB) Germany oder die Vielzahl von Migrant*innenorganisationen\u2013 den Gesetzgebungsprozess beeinflussen k\u00f6nnen.

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Eine angemessene Beteiligung verschiedener Akteur*innen und eine gesellschaftspolitische Diskussion solch weitreichender Entscheidungen ist nicht nur demokratietheoretisch w\u00fcnschenswert, sondern letztlich auch f\u00fcr das Gelingen KI-gest\u00fctzter Verfahren entscheidend. Eine Vielzahl wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten hat bisherige \u2013 eher top-down initiierte \u2013 Bestrebungen, KI im Bereich Migration und Asyl einzusetzen, kritisch beleuchtet: etwa die Dialekterkennungssoftware des BAMF oder den Einsatz des Geomatch-Algorithmus in den Niederlanden, der mittlerweile bereits in der Pilotphase gestoppt wurde. Zuvor hatten Forschungsarbeiten auf die diskriminierenden Wirkweisen des zugrundeliegenden Algorithmus hingewiesen. Solche Systeme sind nicht nur mit Blick auf die Betroffenen h\u00f6chst problematisch und k\u00f6nnen zu Verletzungen von Grund- und Menschenrechten f\u00fchren, sondern k\u00f6nnen letztlich auch einen Reputationsschaden f\u00fcr die zust\u00e4ndigen Regierungen mit sich bringen.

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Dass KI und Digitalisierung globale Mobilit\u00e4t ma\u00dfgeblich ver\u00e4ndern und Chancen, Herausforderungen sowie Risiken f\u00fcr das Migrationsmanagement in der EU und Deutschland mit sich bringen, r\u00fcckt zunehmend in den Fokus wissenschaftlicher und gesellschaftspolitscher Debatten. Obwohl das KIMVG ein konkretes Beispiel daf\u00fcr ist, wie Gesetzgebung diese Chancen und Herausforderungen gestalten kann, findet die Auseinandersetzung bislang vor allem in Fachkreisen statt. In der breiteren \u00d6ffentlichkeit und den gro\u00dfen Medien wird der Entwurf bisher nur punktuell aufgegriffen. Das erschwert insbesondere Betroffenen \u2013 zus\u00e4tzlich zur juristischen Komplexit\u00e4t des Gesetzes \u2013 den Zugang zum Diskurs. Insgesamt macht der Entwurf deutlich, dass Fragen des KI-Einsatzes in der Migrations- und Asylverwaltung zweierlei ben\u00f6tigen: einen pr\u00e4zise formulierten und grundrechtskonformen rechtlichen Rahmen genauso wie eine grunds\u00e4tzliche gesellschaftliche Debatte dar\u00fcber, welchen Stellenwert KI und Automatisierungen in grundrechtssensiblen Verfahren haben sollten und ob und wie sie halten k\u00f6nnen, was sie versprechen.

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Eine englischsprachige, k\u00fcrzere Version dieses Posts wurde auf TechPolicy Press ver\u00f6ffentlicht.

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A recently published article addresses[1] the long standing problem of why transition metals complexes such as e.g. Cp2TiCl2 in the presence of solutions of polysulfide dianions containing sulfur chains of various lengths, can react to form sulfur ring complexes of a specific size, depending on the metal. Thus when the early transition metal is Ti (Cp = cyclopentadienyl) it forms only the six membered ring shown below (X=S), with none of the five-membered/four-sulfur ring present. However, other central and later transition period metals only form four-sulfur rings.[1]
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\nThe effect was attributed to the degree of overlap\u00a0of a localised sulfur p-orbital with a vacant Ti d-orbital as shown below (Figure 1. click on the diagram to get a 3D model).

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\nFigure 1. Overlap between a sulfur p-donor and a titanium d-acceptor.

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One quantative estimate of the magnitude of the effect can be obtained using the NBO7 method[2], which provides a value for the perturbation interaction energy between the filled donor orbital (the S p-orbital) and the empty acceptor orbital (the Ti d-orbital) as a so-called E(2) energy. Thus in the article[1] the E(2) energy for the Ti six-membered complex shown above was reported as 21.2 kcal/mol (Table below) whereas for the analogous five-ring (for which the overlap between the two orbitals is less good) the value was 11.0 kcal/mol. This effect can be related [1] to the relative (free energy) stability of the product complex in the above reaction.

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The question now arises whether the effect can be “optimised” by changing some of the ring atoms from S to another. In fact eight crystal structures have been reported with such substitutions (Table) and so here the NBO7 analysis is repeated for these systems and a few other as yet unreported examples.

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Table. NBO7 E(2) interaction energy for variants of Cp2TiS5.
CSD NameRing atomsNBO7 E(2)Ti-S length, \u00c5Ti-S dihedralLit/CSDMN15L/Def2-QZVPP NBO7
CYPTIS01S, S, S, S, S21.202.466, 2.47062.0[3][4]
KIVTOYS, S, Se, Se, Se21.702.47165.7[5][6]
NIRXERS, S, X=N-Me (ax)\u2020, S, S15.352.462, 2.47954.9[7], [8][9]
UnknownS, S, X=P-Me (ax), S, S23.592.45363.5unknown[10]
SEDRUOS, S, X=As-Me(ax), S, S23.492.45465.7[11][12]
SEDRUOS, S, X=As-Me(eq), S, S21.582.460, 2.47064.8\u2020[13]
FEHTOBS, S, X=Cp2TiS5, S, S\u20212.46368.9, 63.9[14][15]
VOSMUOS, S, Se, Se, Se21.702.47265.7[5], [16][17]
VOSNEZS, S,Se, Se, S19.932.463, 2.47565.1, 64.1[5], [18][19]
VOSNAVSe,Se,Se,Se,Se21.38–66.2[20],[21][22]
ZEMXIVS, Se, Se, Se, Se18.652.46767.0[23][24]
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Analysis

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  1. There appears to be a reasonable correction between the NBO E(2) energy and the Ti-S bond length. The shortest bond (X=PMe) corresponds to the highest E(2) value of 23.59 kcal/mol. SEDRUO is a known example (X=AsMe, Figure 2) and X=PMe is worthy of synthesis to reinforce this conclusion.
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  2. The donation from the sulfur\u00a0p-orbital to the Ti d-orbital appears to reach a maximum at\u00a0~65\u00b0, not far off the value for Cp2TiS5 itself (Figure 1).
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  3. The series\u00a0X=NMe, PMe, AsMe is interesting because the Me group has a favoured axial position (Figure 2), by an estimated 10.6 kcal/mol for\u00a0X=NMe. This remarkable preference is probably caused by the bond angle subtended at X, since no strong stereoelectronic effect could be found\u00a0(such as donation from the lone pair on the N/P/As).
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    \nFigure 2.Structure of SEDRUO, showing the strong axial preference.
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  4. X = Cp2TiS5 is interesting because it should exhibit the effect twice, at each Ti. Unfortunately the wavefunction for this species appears to have a pathological problem with converging to an NBO localised solution – we hope to find a solution to this at some stage. The Ti-S bond lengths however do not suggest the effect noted above will be especially high for this species.
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  5. PUJFUV[25] replaces one six-electron Cp ligand metal donor with an apparent two-electron contribution from an 2,6-di-isopropylphenoxy ligand. This has a measured Ti-O bond length of 1.795\u00c5, which is towards the shorter end of the spectrum of Ti-O lengths (which range from ~1.7 to ~2.2\u00c5). This intriguing example will be analysed in a separate post.
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Conclusions

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The effect identified previously[1] which is responsible for the preference of early transition metals such as Ti to form polysulfide rings with five sulfurs rather than four appears to reach a maximum for the known species X=AsMe (Figure 2) or the as yet unmade molecule with X=PMe.

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\u2020The equatorial isomer for X=NMe is a remarkable ~10.6 kcal/mol higher in free energy.[26] whereas for X=AsMe it is reduced to 4.59 kcal/mol. This is probably due to the angle subtended at N/As, which is 117.7\u00b0 for N and 103.6\u00b0 for As, which may also propagate to the values of the dihedral angle. \u2021The NBO7 localisation search terminated unsuccessfully after considering 100000 bonding patterns.

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References

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  17. H. Rzepa, \"VOSMUO NBO7 Def2-QZVPP no solvent LP ( 2) S 2 116. BD*( 2)Ti 1- S 6 21.70\", 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22141977\n\n
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  18. Laasonen, Heli., Ik\u00e4heimonen, Johanna., Suomela, Mikko., Rautiainen, J. Mikko., and Laitinen, Risto S.., \"CCDC 1887990: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination\", 2019. https://doi.org/10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc21clxy\n\n
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  22. H. Rzepa, \"VOZNAV MN15L/Def2-QZVPP (Se only) NBO7 LP ( 2)Se 2 BD*( 2)Ti 1-Se 6 21.38\", 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22286621\n\n
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SEDRUO (As-Me) => P-Me ax G = -3210.173356 Def2-QZVPP NBO7 LP ( 2) S 5 . BD*( 2)Ti 1- S 6 23.59 [Dataset]. Zenodo."},{"id":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.198912691","unstructured":"Steudel, R., Holz, B., & Pickardt, J. (1989). Synthesis and Structure of [(C5H5)2TiS4AsCH3]\u2014a New Reagent for the Synthesis of Sulfur\u2010Rich Heterocycles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, 28(9), 1269\u20131271."},{"id":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22286648","unstructured":"Rzepa, H. (2026). SEDRUO (As-Me) NBO7 LP ( 2) S 5 BD*( 2)Ti 1- S 6 23.49 [Dataset]. Zenodo."},{"id":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22669613","unstructured":"Rzepa, H. (2026). SEDRUO (As-Me) eq NBO7 => Def2-QZVPP LP ( 2) S 4 101. BD*( 2)Ti 1- S 2 21.58 [Dataset]. Zenodo."},{"id":"https://doi.org/10.1021/om00146a040","unstructured":"Giolando, D. M., Rauchfuss, T. B., Rheingold, A. L., & Wilson, S. R. (1987). Chemistry of (RC5H4)2TiE5 (E = S, Se). 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Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) have long served as more than a hybrid organic-inorganic filler for polymers. Their partially condensed silanol forms present a rigid, oxygen-rich pocket that closely resembles a fragment of amorphous silica, and this pocket is an excellent ligand for metal ions of nearly every part of the periodic table. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been the decisive tool for confirming what these metal-POSS assemblies actually look like, since spectroscopic and computational evidence alone can rarely distinguish between competing cage topologies. This review surveys recent crystallographically confirmed metal-POSS complexes, organized by the metal center, and closes with a synthesis of the structural trends that emerge once the diffraction data are compared side by side.

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POSS as a Ligand Platform for Metal Ions

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The starting point for nearly every metal-POSS complex discussed below is an incompletely condensed silsesquioxane, most often a trisilanol of general formula R7Si7O9(OH)3, in which R is a bulky organic substituent such as cyclohexyl, isobutyl, or phenyl.1 Deprotonation of the three remaining hydroxyl groups generates a trianionic, oxygen-donor pocket that reacts with a metal-organic precursor MR'n to cap the open corner of the cage, expelling the R' groups as volatile byproducts and leaving the metal bound in a fashion reminiscent of a tripodal ligand (Figure 1). Depending on the metal and its coordination requirements, this corner-capped unit can be a stable end point in its own right, as is typical for many main-group and alkaline-earth derivatives, or it can undergo further self-assembly into larger cage structures through bridging oxo, hydroxo, or alkoxo groups, as is the case for most of the transition metal and lanthanide complexes discussed below. Because these frameworks so closely mimic isolated surface sites on silica, they have functioned for decades as molecular models for silica-supported catalysts, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been essential for relating a given coordination geometry to catalytic behavior observed in solution or in the heterogeneous phase.

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Figure 1. General corner-capping strategy for forming a closed-cage metallasilsesquioxane from an open-cage trisilanol and a metal-organic precursor MR'n, where M is a metal from group 1, 2, or 13 of the periodic table, R is an unreactive alkyl or aryl substituent, and R' is an alkyl group or hydrogen.

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Nickel, Manganese, Iron, and Vanadium Cages

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Beyond copper, the same cage-forming chemistry has been extended to several other transition metals, each contributing distinctive structural motifs. A hexanuclear nickel(II) phenylsilsesquioxane, isolated as a dioxane-benzonitrile-water solvate and studied by X-ray and topological analysis, adopts an unusual cylinder-like architecture in which benzonitrile coordinates directly to the metallasilsesquioxane core, a rare mode of complexation for this ligand class.14 This complex was also tested as a catalyst for oxidations with peroxides: tert-butyl hydroperoxide converted 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 90 percent yield after 24 hours, whereas meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid oxidized cyclohexane to a cyclohexanone/cyclohexanol mixture in a more modest 24 percent yield, with methylcyclohexane giving a broader spread of isomeric ketones and alcohols in comparable overall yield.14

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Figure 2. X-ray crystal structure of the cylinder-like Ni6 architecture of Bilyachenko et al., Molecules 2016, 21, 665 (ref. 14), rendered directly from the deposited crystal structure. Top view (left) shows the Ni1, Ni2, and Ni3 pairs forming the Ni6O6 ring sandwiched between the two 12-membered siloxane cycles, with the encapsulated chloride anion at the crystallographic center of inversion. Side view (right) shows the resulting cylinder shape, alongside a detail of the distorted octahedral coordination environment at one nickel center.

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Manganese chemistry has produced an especially structurally diverse series, beginning with the first heterobimetallic Mn/Na and Mn/Li derivatives reported by Lorenz, Blaurock, and Edelmann in 2008, both confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction with manganese-oxygen bond lengths of 1.985(2) to 2.146(2) angstroms in the Mn/Na cage and a narrower 2.046(3) to 2.048(3) angstrom range in the Mn/Li cage. This early series was purely structural in purpose and was reported without any catalytic testing.15 More recent manganese cages incorporating 1,10-phenanthroline or bathophenanthroline ligands have revealed a still more unusual feature, the coexistence of sodium, manganese(II), and manganese(III) within a single cage, a consequence of spontaneous oxidation during self-assembly that only diffraction analysis could unambiguously confirm, with the manganese(III)-oxygen bonds consistently 0.2 to 0.3 angstroms shorter than the corresponding manganese(II)-oxygen bonds in the same cage.16,17 The phenanthroline series was synthesized specifically to evaluate manganese silsesquioxanes as precatalysts for the oxidative amidation of alcohols and aldehydes with tert-butyl hydroperoxide, and at 5 mol percent manganese loading the two simplest cages in the series gave the benzamide product in 84 and 79 percent yield, outperforming a range of simple manganese salts and oxides tested for comparison.16 The bathophenanthroline series was instead developed as a catalyst for the solvent-free cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides, reaching a 90 percent yield of cyclic carbonate under standard conditions and up to 99 percent yield after optimizing the reaction temperature and pressure, roughly double the yield obtained with simple manganese chloride under the same conditions, and the same complexes additionally showed antifungal activity against several phytopathogenic Fusarium and related fungal species that exceeded that of the commercial fungicide triadimefon at equal concentration.17 Iron(III)-based phenylsilsesquioxane/acetylacetonate complexes reported in 2024 show a comparable sensitivity to the identity of the alkali metal template, with lithium, sodium, and potassium each directing the assembly toward a distinct cage size and silsesquioxane ring size, including the first observation of a trimeric silsesquioxane ligand within a metallasilsesquioxane cage.18 Catalytically, the Fe4Na4 congener stood out among the three, reaching a record 55 percent yield of oxygenates in the peroxidative oxidation of cyclohexane, and the series as a whole also promoted the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides, giving cyclic carbonates in 58 to 96 percent yield depending on the substrate.18

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Figure 3 (Fe4Na4 and Fe3K3 renders pending). X-ray crystal structure of the Fe2Li2 cage from the alkali-metal-dependent series of Bilyachenko et al., Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 1909-1918 (ref. 18), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates (CCDC 2263801). The Fe4Na4 (CCDC 2267402) and Fe3K3 (CCDC 2280386) congeners from the same series will be added as companion panels once rendered.

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Vanadium chemistry has taken a different direction altogether, yielding polyoxovanadate clusters protected by silsesquioxane ligands rather than classical cage metallasilsesquioxanes. A fourteen-vanadium cluster represents the highest nuclearity yet reported for this combination, displaying vanadium-oxygen distances of 1.933 to 2.071 angstroms to the silsesquioxane ligands and considerably shorter terminal vanadium-oxo bonds of 1.519 to 1.695 angstroms, while a six-vanadium congener adopts a more regular planar hexagonal arrangement with vanadium-oxygen bonds of 1.987 to 2.006 angstroms and terminal vanadium-oxo bonds of 1.562 to 1.601 angstroms.19 The hexavanadium cluster was developed specifically as a heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of quinazolinones from 2-aminobenzamide and aldehydes, reaching essentially complete conversion with selectivity typically between 90 and 99 percent across a broad substrate scope of electron-rich, electron-poor, heterocyclic, and aliphatic aldehydes, and it clearly outperformed the higher-nuclearity fourteen-vanadium cluster under comparable conditions. The catalyst could be recycled for at least six successive runs with only a negligible loss of conversion and a slight decrease in selectivity, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry confirmed that no more than 0.015 percent of the vanadium content leached into solution during the reaction, supporting its heterogeneous mode of action.

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Zinc-POSS Complexes: Structure and Applications in Catalysis

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Zinc occupies a smaller but catalytically significant niche within this literature. Di Iulio, Jones, Mahon, and Apperley reported in 2010 the first structurally characterized zinc(II) silsesquioxane complexes, describing their solid-state structures as unprecedented at the time and evaluating the resulting compounds as initiators for the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide.20 A structurally distinct approach was taken in our own work on an imine-functionalized POSS ligand, in which the silsesquioxane core and the steric bulk of the imine side arms direct the formation of a tetrazinc complex, denoted Zn4@POSS-1, whose solid-state structure was established by X-ray crystallography alongside an extensive spectroscopic characterization in solution.21 The four zinc centers adopt a distorted tetrahedral geometry, two with a delta and two with a lambda configuration, with Zn-O bond lengths of 1.914(5) to 1.924(4) angstroms and Zn-N bond lengths of 1.979(6) to 2.016(5) angstroms, both ranges comparable to typical Zn(II) Schiff-base complexes, while the silicon-oxygen-silicon angles within the POSS core widen to between 139.6(3) and 167.3(3) degrees at the corners capped by the zinc centers. Zn4@POSS-1 is also structurally distinctive within the broader body of work surveyed in this review. In most of the crystallographically confirmed complexes discussed above, from the copper, manganese, and iron cages to the nickel cylinder and the lanthanide and actinide clusters, the metal centers are encapsulated inside a closed cage, sandwiched between two silsesquioxane ligand planes or embedded within a bridging oxo core sitting at the heart of the assembly. Zn4@POSS-1 departs from this pattern: the four zinc centers are held on the outside of an open, partially condensed POSS scaffold, each capped by one arm of the imine-functionalized ligand rather than being enclosed within a fully closed double-decker or sandwich core. This places Zn4@POSS-1 closer in spirit to the corner-capping assembly mode described for the main-group and alkaline-earth derivatives later in this review, in which a metal center caps an open corner of the cage from the outside, than to the encapsulated, internally templated architectures that dominate the transition-metal and lanthanide chemistry surveyed elsewhere in this article. This complex proved effective as a multisite catalyst for the cycloaddition of CO2 with epoxides to form cyclic carbonates under low CO2 pressure, a transformation of considerable interest for carbon utilization chemistry, and it illustrates how the same coordination chemistry that produces striking copper and manganese cages can be redirected toward small-molecule catalysis when a redox-inactive metal such as zinc is used instead. With styrene oxide as the model substrate, tetrabutylammonium iodide as co-catalyst, and 1 atmosphere of CO2 at 100 degrees Celsius, the catalyst alone was inactive, but the Zn4@POSS-1/TBAI pair reached 96 percent conversion to styrene carbonate at a turnover frequency of 25 per hour, rising to 98 percent conversion at 130 degrees Celsius, and it retained a useful 95 percent conversion even at a ten-fold lower catalyst loading when the reaction time was extended.21

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Figure 4. X-ray crystal structure of Zn4@POSS-1 from Janeta, Lis, Szafert, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 13686-13697 (ref. 21), rendered directly from the deposited crystal structure (CCDC 1504223). The imine-functionalized POSS core is capped by four Zn(II) centers, each chelated by an N,N-imine side arm in the meso-(delta,delta,lambda,lambda) configuration described in the text.

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Lanthanide and Actinide Metallasilsesquioxanes: Magnetism and Luminescence

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Lanthanide-based metallasilsesquioxanes form a comparatively young but fast-moving subfield, motivated by the combination of structural novelty with magnetic and luminescent function. The first CeIV metallasilsesquioxane complex, reported by Gun'ko, Reilly, Edelmann, and Schmidt in 2001, established that even a large, high-valent lanthanide ion could be accommodated within a silsesquioxane coordination environment.22 Lorenz and coworkers subsequently reported an erbium complex in which two silsesquioxane cages become coupled through a bridging siloxy unit, a transformation that had not previously been observed for a lanthanide-templated system.23 Since 2020, a series of tetranuclear cage-like lanthanide silsesquioxanes built around a prism-like Ln4 core has produced some of the most functionally interesting examples in the entire field. Terbium and europium derivatives display the first luminescence reported for a cage-like lanthanide silsesquioxane, and one terbium-based cage additionally exhibits a magnetic spin-flip transition.24

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Figure 5. X-ray crystal structure of the mixed-lanthanide cage anion of (Et4N)2[(PhSiO1.5)8(Y0.75Dy0.25O1.5)4(O)(NO3)6(EtOH)2(MeCN)2], compound 1 of Kulakova et al., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 2696-2701 (ref. 26), CCDC 2062487, rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. Two parallel tetraphenylcyclotetrasiloxanolate macrocycles sandwich a distorted-square (Y0.75Dy0.25O1.5)4 core (left). The tetraethylammonium counter-cation is shown alongside the cage in the side view (right). This is the compound that displays field-induced single-molecule magnet behavior in addition to the characteristic dysprosium green-yellow emission.

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Figure 6. X-ray crystal structure of the homometallic cage anion of (Ph4P)2[(PhSiO1.5)8(DyO1.5)4(O)(NO3)6(EtOH)2(MeCN)2], compound 3 of Kulakova et al., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 2696-2701 (ref. 26), CCDC 2002355, rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. The same prism-like topology as in Figure 5 is retained with four Dy(III) centers in the core (left). The tetraphenylphosphonium counter-cation is shown alongside the cage (right). Unlike the mixed Y/Dy analogue, this all-dysprosium cage and its tetraethylammonium salt (compound 2, CCDC 2002354, not shown) do not display slow relaxation of the magnetization, a difference attributed to magnetic interactions between the four Dy(III) centers.

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Related dysprosium and yttrium/dysprosium cages combine field-induced single-molecule magnet behavior with green-yellow emission, yielding the first bifunctional magneto-luminescent silsesquioxane reported in the literature, while mixed terbium/europium cages have been developed specifically as luminescent thermometers operating between 41 and 100 degrees Celsius through a temperature-dependent energy transfer between the two lanthanide centers.25,26 A further mixed-lanthanide series combining dysprosium, europium, terbium, and yttrium in various ratios extends this dual functionality: the dysprosium/europium member behaves as a field-induced single-molecule magnet, with an effective energy barrier of 11.3 wavenumbers under an applied direct-current field, while simultaneously operating as a europium-based emissive thermometer across the range of 293 to 373 kelvin, reaching a maximum relative thermal sensitivity of 1.15 percent per kelvin at 293 kelvin, whereas the terbium- and yttrium-containing congeners of the same series show neither slow magnetic relaxation nor temperature-dependent emission.27 At still higher nuclearity, a tridecanuclear gadolinium(III) cluster with an unprecedented body-centered cuboctahedron core represents the highest nuclearity yet reported for a lanthanide silsesquioxane and was synthesized specifically to explore cryogenic magnetic refrigeration, reaching a maximum magnetic entropy change of 20 joules per kilogram per kelvin at 2 kelvin under an applied field of 7.0 tesla.28 Actinide chemistry entered this field only recently, with Tricoire, Mazzanti, and coworkers reporting in 2024 the first trinuclear uranium(III) metallasilsesquioxane, a complex that exhibits magnetic exchange between the three uranium centers and promotes the reduction of dinitrogen in the presence of a reducing agent, with U-O bond lengths ranging from 2.125(16) to 2.568(17) angstroms and an average value of 2.36(2) angstroms.29

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Figure 7. X-ray crystal structure of the first trinuclear U(III) metallasilsesquioxane, [U3(iBuPOSS)3], of Tricoire et al., Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 55-58 (ref. 29), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. The three uranium centers (U1, U2, U3) are arranged in a triangular U3(mu-O)6 core, each capped by one iBuPOSS ligand and linked to its neighbors by bridging siloxide oxygens, with U-O distances ranging from 2.125(16) to 2.568(17) angstroms and an average value of 2.36(2) angstroms, consistent with previously reported U(III) siloxide complexes.

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Main-Group and Alkaline-Earth Derivatives

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A smaller number of structurally confirmed metal-POSS complexes involve main-group or alkaline-earth elements rather than transition metals or f-block ions. Duchateau and coworkers prepared a family of tin-containing polyhedral oligometallasilsesquioxanes in 2004 starting from cyclopentyl-substituted silsesquioxane trisilanols. Protonolysis with a tin(II) amide gave three-coordinate Sn(II) dimers of the type [(cyclopentyl)7Si7O11(OX)Sn]2 (compound 2 shown below), which proved hydrolytically unstable and feature a planar, strained (SnO)2 four-membered ring with an O-Sn-O angle of 75.39(13) degrees and an Sn-O-Sn angle of 104.61(13) degrees, the bridging tin-oxygen bonds of 2.177(3) and 2.172(3) angstroms being noticeably longer than the terminal, sigma-bonded tin-oxygen bond of 1.995(3) angstroms, whereas reaction with Cl2Sn(acac)2 gave hydrolytically robust, octahedrally coordinated Sn(IV) mono-tin complexes. Slow hydrolysis of the corresponding tin(IV) chloride cluster instead produced an unprecedented anionic trimeric cluster (compound 6) in which three octahedral Sn(IV) centers are held together by three silsesquioxane cages and four bridging hydroxyl groups, three of them bridging two tin atoms and one bridging all three, with a triethylammonium counterion occupying the remaining corner of the resulting incomplete cube. In this cluster the average tin-oxygen-tin angle at the doubly bridging hydroxyls, 112.3(3) degrees, is noticeably wider than the corresponding angle at the triply bridging hydroxyl, 100.9(3) degrees, while the tin atoms are linked to the silsesquioxane cages by tin-oxygen-silicon bonds averaging 1.974(4) angstroms in length, with a tin-oxygen-silicon angle of about 140 degrees at the monodentate silsesquioxane linkages and about 134 degrees at the bidentate ones. Despite this structural sophistication, none of the tin(IV) complexes showed any catalytic activity when screened in the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone, the Oppenauer oxidation of isopropanol, or the epoxidation of cyclooctene, a result the authors attributed to the coordinative saturation and reduced Lewis acidity of the octahedral, and in one case anionic, tin centers.30

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Figure 8. Left: the anionic trinuclear Sn(IV) cluster {[(cyclopentyl)7Si7O12Sn]3(mu2-OH)3(mu3-OH)}-{HNEt3}+ (compound 6, CCDC 238581). Right: the three-coordinate Sn(II) dimer [(cyclopentyl)7Si7O11(OSiMe3)Sn]2 (compound 2, CCDC 238582), with a center of inversion in the planar (SnO)2 ring. Both structures from Duchateau et al., Dalton Trans. 2004, 2677-2682 (ref. 30), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates.

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Lorenz, Blaurock, and Edelmann reported in the same period the first metallasilsesquioxane derivative of a heavier alkaline-earth metal, a dinuclear calcium complex in which two anionic silsesquioxane cages bridge a pair of unsymmetrically solvated calcium centers.31 Although these examples remain fewer in number than their transition metal and lanthanide counterparts, they demonstrate that the silsesquioxane cage can stabilize an unusually broad span of ionic radii and electronic configurations, from small trivalent tin to large, weakly coordinating alkaline-earth cations.

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Copper Cage Silsesquioxanes: The Dominant Family

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Copper accounts for the largest and most rapidly growing body of crystallographically confirmed metal-POSS chemistry, driven principally by the systematic work of Bilyachenko and coworkers. Across this family the recurring synthetic purpose was catalytic rather than purely structural, since nearly every reported cage was subsequently tested as a precatalyst for the peroxidative oxidation of light alkanes, cyclic hydrocarbons, and secondary alcohols with hydrogen peroxide or tert-butyl hydroperoxide, and crystallographic confirmation of the cage architecture was pursued specifically because catalytic performance was found to depend on the precise nuclearity and connectivity of the metal-oxo core rather than on solution composition alone.2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,13

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The binuclear \"cooling tower\" complex [(PhSiO1.5)10(CuO)2(NaO0.5)2] reported in 2013 established the basic architecture of a copper-silsesquioxane cage, in which cyclic phenylsilsesquioxane ligands sandwich a small metal-oxo core, and its structure was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, with copper-oxygen bond lengths of 1.906(3) to 1.956(4) angstroms and a silicon-oxygen-silicon bridging angle as wide as 166.2(3) degrees.2 The complex was synthesized specifically to probe alkane and alcohol oxidation catalysis, and in benzene oxidation with hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid as promoter it reached a turnover number of 550 and a product yield of up to 41 percent, while oxidation of 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone with tert-butyl hydroperoxide proceeded in a yield approaching 100 percent after four hours.

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Nonanuclear methylsilsesquioxane cages appeared in 2017, alongside trinuclear and hexanuclear congeners obtained from the same reaction system, each nuclearity and connectivity again established by diffraction, with mean copper-copper and copper-oxygen siloxanolate distances of 2.869(5) and 1.935(9) angstroms in the trinuclear cage.3 These complexes were likewise developed as alkane and alcohol oxidation catalysts, and the trinuclear cage converted 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 96 percent yield and cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone in 77 percent yield, while cyclohexane oxidation with hydrogen peroxide reached a total yield of 20 percent and a turnover number of 184, several times higher than the yield obtained with simple copper nitrate under the same conditions.

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A distinct nonanuclear phenylsilsesquioxane cage of Cu9Na6 composition, formed with the assistance of a phenanthroline ligand that does not itself enter the final structure, followed in 2018, together with an ionic Cu9Na4 congener obtained under related conditions.4 Both complexes were prepared as catalysts for the oxidative amidation of benzyl alcohol, a reaction in which the Cu9Na6 cage required only 100 parts per million of copper and reached a turnover number of 7700 and a turnover frequency of 325 per hour, substantially outperforming copper oxide alone under the same conditions, and it additionally converted cyclohexanone or acetophenone in 63 or 98 percent yield in alcohol oxidation with tert-butyl hydroperoxide.

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The coordinating role of the alkali metal cation proved to be a recurring structural variable rather than an incidental detail. Sandwich-like Cu4M2 complexes built around lithium, sodium, and potassium templates, distinguished crystallographically by intramolecular alkali metal to alkali metal separations ranging from 10.35 to 11.45 angstroms, were shown to direct the assembly toward distinct architectures even when the silsesquioxane and transition metal components were otherwise unchanged, although specific catalytic yields for this particular series were not reported in the accessible source text.5 The corresponding rubidium and cesium templated tetracopper cages, resolved crystallographically with rubidium to rubidium separations as long as 9.39 angstroms, were tested extensively as alkane oxidation and carboxylation catalysts, reaching a 35 percent yield and a turnover number of 320 in cyclohexane oxidation with hydrogen peroxide and a 50 percent total yield with a turnover number of 277 in the oxidative carboxylation of n-butane to a mixture of pentanoic acids, in addition to alcohol oxidations that converted 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 98 percent yield.6

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Heptanuclear cages bridged additionally by benzoate ligands were reported between 2019 and 2021, with the three linearly disposed copper centers in the cage subtending an angle of 178.04(2) degrees.7 The heptanuclear complex was again evaluated as an alkane and alcohol oxidation catalyst, converting cyclohexane to a combined yield of 32 percent of alcohol and ketone with a turnover number of 290 within two hours, a result that compared favorably with a copper-sodium silsesquioxane analog tested under the same conditions, and it oxidized the acetophenone precursor 1-phenylethanol with tert-butyl hydroperoxide in 90 percent yield and a turnover number of 900.

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Tetranuclear complexes obtained through the oxidative cleavage of a bis(phosphine) ligand, in this case 1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)methane, were reported in 2019 as a palanquin-like Cu4Na4 cage in which the shortest distance between opposing silicon atoms of the silsesquioxane ligand measured 5.114 angstroms.8 This complex converted cyclohexane to cyclohexanol in 26 percent yield with a turnover number of 240 and an activation energy of 13.6 kilocalories per mole, and it oxidized 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in essentially quantitative yield.

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Heterometallic Cu4/M4 architectures further diversified the structural landscape reported between 2019 and 2023. A series of eight cesium and rubidium templated Cu4M4 coordination polymers, in which the centers of neighboring cages were separated by 13.97 angstroms in the solid state, were developed for the hydrocarboxylation of cycloalkanes, converting cyclohexane to cyclohexanecarboxylic acid in up to 37.8 percent yield and cyclopentane to the corresponding acid in 26.4 percent yield, in addition to reaching a 45 percent yield in direct cyclohexane oxidation with hydrogen peroxide.9 A related cage-like Cu5Cs4 phenylsilsesquioxane, with cesium to cesium separations of 9.54 and 11.62 angstroms, was instead developed for the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone to epsilon-caprolactone with meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid, reaching a quantitative yield and a turnover number of 250 under microwave irradiation, and it additionally supported a tandem route directly from cyclohexane to the lactone in 17 percent yield, together with alcohol oxidations reaching 90 percent yield in the conversion of 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone.10

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The record for nuclearity in this family has continued to rise, from a Cu12 cage decorated with additional Cu(I) phosphine moieties in 2024, whose copper-copper-copper trimer units are significantly distorted with angles of 140.70 and 141.77 degrees, to a Cu13Na2 cage assembled with the assistance of acetate ligands in 2025, the latter structure solved using synchrotron radiation.11,12 The Cu12 complex proved to be an active catalyst for both the peroxidative oxidation and the oxidative carboxylation of C2 to C4 alkanes, reaching a turnover number of up to 534 in propane oxidation and a 50 percent combined yield of pivalic and isovaleric acids in the carboxylation of isobutane, and it oxidized 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 96 percent yield with a turnover number of 960. The Cu13Na2 cage itself was tested as a precatalyst in the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone, reaching essentially quantitative yields of epsilon-caprolactone with meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid as oxidant, and it also supported a direct tandem route from cyclohexane to the same lactone in 25 to 26 percent yield, a modest but meaningful improvement over the heptanuclear Cu7-benzoate congener from the same group on this more demanding substrate.12

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An octanuclear Cu8 complex bearing 3-phenyl-5-(2-pyridyl)pyrazolate ligands, in which two zigzag Cu4 tetramers are sandwiched by two cyclic pentameric silsesquioxane ligands with a longest intramolecular copper to copper separation of 11.08 angstroms, was likewise synthesized as an alkane oxidation catalyst, converting n-heptane to a 14 percent yield of oxidation products and methylcyclohexane to a 15 percent yield under comparable conditions with hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid as promoter.13

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Figure 9. X-ray crystal structure of the record-nuclearity Cu13Na2 cage of Bilyachenko et al., Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31, e202403604 (ref. 12), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. The left view shows the fused copper-siloxanolate core, with the crystallographically independent Cu1 and Cu2 centers and their symmetry-related counterparts (Cu3, Cu4 and primed equivalents) bridged by phenylsiloxanolate oxygens. The right view, rotated to look down the pseudo-macrocyclic axis, shows how the copper centers are threaded through the large siloxanolate ring formed by the ligand framework. Acetate ligands and the two bridging sodium centers that complete the Cu13Na2 formulation lie above and below this copper-rich core and are omitted here for clarity.

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What Crystallography Reveals: Emerging Structural Trends

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Several patterns recur across this body of crystallographic work regardless of which metal is involved. The alkali metal cation present during self-assembly, whether lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, or cesium, is rarely a passive spectator. Its ionic radius consistently governs whether the silsesquioxane ligand adopts a cyclic or acyclic conformation and whether the resulting cage is neutral, cationic, or anionic, a relationship documented independently for copper, manganese, and iron systems. A second recurring theme is the steady increase in reported nuclearity over time within the copper family in particular, from the two-copper cooling tower of 2013 to cages containing twelve or thirteen copper centers within the past two years, a trend that appears to reflect refinements in self-assembly conditions and the increasing use of synchrotron radiation to solve structures that would otherwise diffract poorly. Finally, the correlation between confirmed cage topology and function, whether catalytic activity in oxidation chemistry, single-molecule magnet behavior, or luminescence thermometry, illustrates why single-crystal X-ray diffraction remains indispensable in this field rather than a merely confirmatory afterthought. Spectroscopic and computational methods can propose a plausible structure, but only diffraction data have consistently distinguished between the closely related cage topologies that give rise to markedly different physical and chemical properties.

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Conclusions and Outlook

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The metal-POSS complexes surveyed here span nearly the entire periodic table, from copper cages of steadily increasing nuclearity to the first actinide example reported only in 2024, and in every case single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been the method that transformed a plausible formula into a confirmed molecular structure. The copper family in particular continues to grow at a pace that suggests further records in nuclearity are likely within the next few years, while the lanthanide and actinide subfields remain comparatively open for structural discovery. For a research program centered on zinc Schiff base and imine-functionalized POSS chemistry, the comparative view offered by this survey suggests that the alkali metal template effect documented so thoroughly for copper, manganese, and iron systems may offer an underexplored strategy for directing the nuclearity and topology of future zinc-based cages as well.

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I’ve been trying to think more seriously about the entity that set off the LZ experiment. I was dismissive of the possibility of it being dark matter, perhaps unfairly so. On further reflection, I feel only fairly dismissive.

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First, the formal significance that is claimed is 2.6\u03c3. That seems to be a fair and fairly conservative statement. So it seems something did happen, the question is what. The odds of a 2.6\u03c3 event are about 1 in 200, so a fluke seems unlikely.

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I can think of three generic possibilities:

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I remain of the opinion that the most likely possibility is that is is a fluke. I know I just said that seems unlikely, but “seems” is doing a lot of work here. I think it is fair to say that known explanations are excluded at this confidence, but that leaves a lot of unknowns. Most unknowns turn out to be boring.

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We’ve been down this road many times. The LHC has been running for many years now. It detected the Higgs particle, which was the last missing piece of the Standard Model. That’s a great success. It was hoped that the LHC would also reveal new physics beyond the Standard Model. That it has not done. But there have been many hints during its operation. These appear as glitches (deviations from expectation); there have been multiple glitches that appeared to be significant at the 2.something \u03c3 level. Each time such a glitch was reported, it resulted in a flurry of theoretical activity. Within days, the arxiv preprint server would be inundated with hundreds (literally hundreds) of preprints staking out a claim as to what the latest glitch might be. Each time more data were acquired, the glitch went away. So this seems like another such occasion, making (1), a fluke, seem like the least improbable outcome.

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This is why the [arbitrary] threshold for discovery is set at 5\u03c3 (1 in 3.5 million). Flukes at the 2.something \u03c3 level happen too easily, too often. This phenomenon is not restricted to particle physics. The same thing happens in astronomy all the time. All the gorram time. It’s almost as if nature places more probability in the tail of the distribution for “weird” events than the Gaussian statistics we use say there should be.

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Given this experience, finding a new particle outside the bounds of the Standard Model of Particle Physics seems a lot less likely than 1 in 200. Seems is again doing a lot of work here. How likely 1 in 200 hundred seems depends on your priors. If you’ve been working on this for a long time in the hopes of a positive result, these odds seem pretty good:

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\"I have been waiting for a positive result for, oh, my god, 40 years. So you can bet I'm very, very excited by the LZ results.\"

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If, like me, you’ve already convinced yourself that dark matter cannot explain the kinematic data for galaxies, then it is just another opportunity for the eyes to roll up inside the skull. Obviously we can’t both be right, which is why we do these experiments.

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So what about the other possibilities, (2) and (3)? If the event is real, it is tempting to believe that it is dark matter. That’s what the experiment was designed to detect, after all, so that’s a natural first assumption. But just because you’re looking for something doesn’t guarantee that when you find something you find what you’ve been looking for.

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As I’ve reviewed before, we’re way past the regime of what we expected to find. So it’d be great to find something, but there’s little reason at this point to expect that something to be what we set out to find. So it might be dark matter (2) or it might be something completely different (3). I’ve no way to weigh the odds of those possibilities because they both seem very unlikely.

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For WIMP-like dark matter we at least have some expectations, and this event does not conform to those expectations. It is too high energy. For every event like this one, the detector should have already recorded lots and lots of lower energy events.

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That doesn’t mean it isn’t dark matter (2), just that it isn’t what we expected. But we already missed out on what we were expecting, so maybe? Or maybe it is something unrelated (3), or nothing at all (1). One event does not help override whatever assumption bias we might have had about these possibilities to start.

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To be convincing…

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It occurs to me that I am likely to hold the putative detection of dark matter to a higher standard than other scientists. So what would I find convincing?

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I put the fifth criterion in parentheses because it is a very high bar, and I can conceive of being persuaded to soften it. It is also more advanced tuition than most physicists have contemplated, so let’s start with the more basic requirements.

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At present, none of the above criteria have been met by the new LZ result. There is an old claim to a significant detection by DAMA that satisfies the first criterion but was never independently reproduced, so fails the second criterion. Nobody outside the original experiment takes it seriously now for that reason. It is sobering to realize that while new and exciting, LZ has not yet progressed as far down this list as DAMA.

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Supposing both the first and second requirements are met, then we have a new particle. That is certainly interesting, but by itself would not mean we’ve found dark matter. When we’re in the realm of imagining new particles, there is a vast landscape of possibilities. Only some features in that landscape could qualify as dark matter; there are other possibilities that could exist but have nothing whatever to do with dark matter. So the properties of the particle have to be right, and there is a long list to satisfy.

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From a generic astronomical perspective, the fourth criterion is the most important. We have a pretty good idea of the mass density that dark matter needs to have in the solar neighborhood to explain Galactic kinematics. That’s what these experiments are trying to detect: the dark matter particles in our Galaxy’s dark matter halo that happen to be passing through just now. So for whatever we detect to qualify as the dark matter, there needs to be the right number of particles with the right mass to satisfy astronomical requirements.

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This fourth criterion is a pretty high bar. It does not suffice merely to find a new particle, it’s gotta be the right kind of particle and these particles have to exist with the right density. That can be measured, but it requires lots of detections: enough to work out the properties of the particles and how many are whizzing by. This is part of the disconnect I had in the last post with people complaining about statistical significance: they were focused on the significance of this one event; I was worried about having enough detections to estimate the mass density, or at least see if it is anywhere near the right ballpark. I’m more concerned with the astrophysical relevance of a new particle than with the new particle itself.

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This is a generic problem in the field of dark matter, being as it is at the interface of two different fields. Astronomers need dark matter; we don’t care so much what it is if it performs as required. Particle physicists heard we astronomers needed dark matter, so are more than happy to suggest possibilities, but are more interested in the particle itself than what it does for galaxies. I don’t say what it does for the universe because that’s a lower bar where any dynamically cold, non-baryonic mass will do. The cosmic density needs to be right, but there’s no way to measure the cosmic average, only the local density of the Galactic dark matter halo.

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The highest bar is the fifth criterion, which I think warrants its own post.

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In the media and on social media, there has been a growing number of concerned reports about AI companies that are buying up used books in large quantities and in a rather ominous manner. It is speculated that the large quantities of books acquired in this way are scanned, used for AI training, and irretrievably destroyed in the process. It is often suggested that copyright law is the reason why the books are being destroyed. Can this assumption be substantiated?
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The Destructive Scanning of Books

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The retro-digitization (usually referred to simply as \"digitization\") of books is typically carried out using scanning technology. Modern book scanners are capable of scanning books non-destructively. However, non-destructive scanning of books is a complex process, as irregularities caused by the book's binding must be compensated for during the scanning process.

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In contrast, in so-called destructive scanning, the book's binding is mechanically removed. This turns a book into a loose collection of pages that can be conveniently digitized using a sheet-fed scanner. Once the scanning process is complete, the book pages are then disposed of as waste paper.

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Why Antiquarian Bookstores Are Important for AI Training

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Digital data sources, such as web archives, have long been incorporated into the training of current AI models. The digitization of printed books is now the next stage in data acquisition. According to observers, tech companies are particularly focused on non-fiction books published between the 1970s and the 1990s.

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These books are likely to be of interest for three reasons: First, nonfiction books are valuable for AI training because of their content; they contain factual information that is still largely accurate and is integrated into linguistically sophisticated patterns of argumentation. Second, book titles published before the mid-1990s were generally released exclusively as print editions and have not been digitized since. Third, books from the period in question are still predominantly subject to copyright, which expires only 70 years after the author's death in both Germany and the U.S.

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Obtaining scans of these books from dubious third-party sources would be illegal. Therefore, from a copyright perspective, the purchased print editions of these books are particularly valuable to the companies.

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Technical Reasons for Destructive Scanning

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But why do AI companies accept the destruction of the books during the scanning process?

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First, technical aspects play a significant role in large-scale retro-digitization of books: As explained at the outset, destructive scanning is simpler, faster, and therefore more cost-effective. Although the AI industry appears economically strong, observers interpret the decision to use the most cost-effective digitization method as an indication of cost pressure in this \"highly competitive industry.\"

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Competitive considerations may also play a role, because while the books in question are not particularly old or unique, many of them are nevertheless rarely available on the antiquarian book market due to low print runs and scarcity. Whoever buys them first effectively removes them from the competition's reach, thereby gaining a small advantage for their AI model.

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Destructive Scanning Out of Concern for Copyright?

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A lawsuit between three plaintiff authors and the AI company Anthropic before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (Bartz v. Anthropic) established a legal precedent regarding destructive book scanning in 2025.

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The central question here was whether destructive scanning, on the one hand, and the training of AI models using the content of acquired digitized books, on the other, fall under the so-called \"fair use principle.\"

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What is the fair use principle?
\nThe fair use principle is a legal doctrine found in some common law countries. It permits the use of copyrighted material for purposes of public education or intellectual production without requiring authorization for such use. Classic areas of application for fair use include commentary, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship. Under German copyright law, instead of a general clause like fair use, there are narrow exceptions that permit certain uses (such as quotations, caricatures, parodies, educational and scholarly purposes, reporting on current events, etc.) regardless of the copyright holder's consent.
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The two central questions to be decided by the court must be considered separately:

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First, whether training AI models with the content of purchased digitized books is protected by the fair use doctrine.

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Second, whether destructive scanning constitutes a copyright-relevant copy of a work.

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According to Judge William Alsup, training AI models using the content of purchased digitized books was \"transformative in the truest sense of the word\" and therefore protected by the fair use doctrine. Destructive scanning should be classified as \"replacement scanning,\" in which a printed work is replaced by a digital work. This conversion of a purchased printed book into a digital book was classified by the court as a \"format change\" rather than a copy and is therefore also covered by fair use.

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A Landmark Ruling with Significant Implications

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The rule on format conversion\u2014also known as the \"format-shifting rationale\"\u2014thus promises, according to this landmark ruling, a certain degree of legal certainty for AI companies that destroy the books they have acquired for AI training through destructive scanning. The method that is more efficient from a technical standpoint is therefore also the more legally advisable one.

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However, it is a fallacy to assume that the court's ruling requires AI companies to destroy the digitized books. The lawsuit merely examined the specific digitization process as applied by Anthropic as part of \"Project Panama\"\u2014and classified it as fair use.

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E-books Instead of Print Books?

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If e-books were used for training instead of their printed counterparts, the time-consuming step of scanning\u2014and the associated issues of transportation, storage, and reuse\u2014would be eliminated.

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However, e-books can only become training data for AI models in two ways: the legal way\u2014that is, with the involvement of the rights holders of those e-books\u2014or by training with pirated copies. For AI companies, the legal route entails a significantly higher \"legal/practice/business slog\" (quote from Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei).

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Training AI with pirated copies of e-books is not covered by fair use and thus constitutes a clear copyright infringement, Judge Alsup ruled.

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Fears of 'Fahrenheit 451' Scenarios

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Reports of AI companies purchasing large quantities of books from used bookstores have sparked, in some cases, fierce reactions in the media. The media discussion often references Ray Bradbury's novel *Fahrenheit 451*, a dystopia in which books are banned.

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A closer look at the relevant court ruling in this specific case reveals that there is no legal obligation to destroy retro-digitized books. Economic reasons for choosing the most cost-effective digitization method therefore appear to be the decisive factor when the AI industry employs destructive book scanning. Against the backdrop of the actions taken by major AI companies, calls for open-source AI models are currently growing louder, and with regard to the retro-digitization of books, there are also increasing calls for \"an open-source initiative or a similar nonprofit project.\"

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If you're reading this, you're part of RSS Club! A top secret society of cool people who subscribe to my feed. This post is not available on the web or via email.

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I've been playing about with Rogue Scholar. It's an open-access publication which allows blogs to get a persistent Digital Object Identifier.

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If I've set everything up correctly (not a given) then all new posts on this site will be issued with a DOI. Hopefully, this will not include RSS Club posts - as I'd like to keep them as a special private treat just between you and me.

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I'm in the process of writing a WordPress plugin to retrieve the DOI and add it to posts. I'm not sure if there's a sensible way to add it into an RSS feed, but I'll give it a go.

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Will this be useful? I don't know. My posts sometimes get referenced in proper academic works - I'm not sure if this'll make any difference to that. But it is nice to experiment with these things.

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If you have any experience with DOI or Rogue Scholar - please get in touch.

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Thanks for being a member of RSS Club - you rock \ud83d\ude03

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Unsere monatliche Rubrik zu aktuellen Veranstaltungen rund um Open Research.

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Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine \u00dcbersicht \u00fcber Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die \u00d6ffentlichkeit richten bzw. die offen sind f\u00fcr Angeh\u00f6rige der Wissenschafts- und Kulturerbeeinrichtungen in Berlin. Wir erg\u00e4nzen diese Liste gerne (Info bitte via Mail ans OROB).
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30. September bis 2. Oktober, Zugang gestalten! – Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerung, Berlin

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Wie gehen Einrichtungen des Kulturerbes mit den Zeugnissen der Vergangenheit um? Nutzen sie diese, um bestimmte Sichtweisen historischer Entwicklungen zu st\u00fctzen, oder \u00fcberlassen sie die Bewertung den Nutzenden und erm\u00f6glichen vor allem den Zugang zu den Quellen? W\u00e4hrend Museen mit kuratierten Ausstellungen h\u00e4ufig st\u00e4rker interpretierend arbeiten, verstehen sich Archive und Bibliotheken traditionell eher als Einrichtungen, die sich auf den Zugang zu ihren Best\u00e4nden konzentrieren. Diese Rollenverteilung ger\u00e4t jedoch unter Druck, wenn es um ein schwieriges Erbe \u2013 etwa rassistische oder antisemitische Zeugnisse \u2013 geht: Archive werden kritisiert, wenn sie scheinbar ungefilterten Zugang gew\u00e4hren, w\u00e4hrend zugleich geschichtspolitische Eingriffe in Kulturerbeeinrichtungen kontrovers diskutiert werden.

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1. Oktober, OER-Fachtag, online

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2026 findet die dritte Ausgabe des gro\u00dfen OER-Fachtags von ORCA.nrw statt. Freuen Sie sich \u00fcber den Tag hinweg auf eine spannende Keynote, Projektvorstellungen, Workshops und viel Austausch & Vernetzung!

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1. Oktober, Sicherung von Identit\u00e4t, Autorenschaft und Quellen, TU Berlin

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Im Vortrag wird, ankn\u00fcpfend an das Blockchain-Projekt f\u00fcr digitale Zeugnisse, die EUDI-Wallet thematisiert. Die Historie der Entwicklung dieser digitalen Brieftasche auf EU-Ebene wird vorgestellt und die Funktionen und M\u00f6glichkeiten sowie Detailinformationen zur Sicherheit werden erl\u00e4utert. Der aktuelle Stand der Entwicklung wird betrachtet und in Form einer Demo wird die Nutzung an einem konkreten Beispiel veranschaulicht. Nach einem Blick auf zuk\u00fcnftige Entwicklungen im Bereich \"Digitaler Identit\u00e4ten\", wie z. B. Post-Quanten-Verschl\u00fcsselung oder Alternative Biometrische Identifikationsverfahren (AuBi) schlie\u00dft der Abend mit Raum f\u00fcr Diskussionen \u00fcber die Technologie und deren Nutzung.

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1. Oktober, KI und Demokratie: Rechtsstaat, Teilhabe und Nachhaltigkeit, ECDF Berlin

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Der Einsatz von KI Technologien erstreckt sich zunehmend auf zentrale Bereiche politischer Steuerung, von der \u00f6ffentlichen Verwaltung und der Umweltpolitik bis hin zu Grenzregimen und wirtschaftlicher Regulierung. Dabei ver\u00e4ndern sie nicht nur Verfahren; es verschieben sich Machtkonstellationen, Verantwortung und politische Handlungsspielr\u00e4ume. Das Symposium mit \u00f6ffentlicher Paneldiskussion diskutiert KI als systemische Herausforderung f\u00fcr Demokratie und Rechtsstaat. Die Veranstaltung bietet kurze Einf\u00fchrungen in verschiedene Schwerpunkte unserer Forschung und erm\u00f6glicht eine kollaborative Plattform zur Diskussion der systemischen Kosten algorithmischer Governance f\u00fcr demokratische Strukturen. Dies schafft einen offenen Raum f\u00fcr Austausch mit politischen Entscheidungstr\u00e4ger*innen, Vertreter*innen von NGOs, Forschenden sowie allen, die an der Zukunft einer digitalen Gesellschaft interessiert sind.

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1.-2. Oktober, Was kostet und wie nachhaltig ist digitale Kultur?, BBAW

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Das Digitale ist ein gro\u00dfes Versprechen: Physische R\u00e4ume und pers\u00f6nliche Speichermedien scheinen ganz \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig zu werden, die Cloud soll ortsunabh\u00e4ngigen, schnellen Zugriff und unbegrenzten Speicherplatz erm\u00f6glichen. Aber was kostet das, welche L\u00f6sungen sind sicher und umweltvertr\u00e4glich?\u00a0Gemeinsam mit bestandserhaltenden Einrichtungen und Vertreter:innen aus Wissenschaft und Forschung wollen wir das Versprechen des Digitalen \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen und konstruktive Vorschl\u00e4ge zur longue dur\u00e9e des digitalen Erbes entwickeln. Es sprechen u.v. a.: Frank Scholze (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek), Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library Oxford) und Petra Gehring (Rat f\u00fcr Informationsinfrastrukturen).

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2. Oktober, Anti-Konferenz: Scheitern in den Digital Humanities, Mehringhof Berlin-Kreuzberg

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5. Oktober, Open Science Forum Mitteldeutschland, Leipzig

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Das Open Science Forum Mitteldeutschland 2026 bringt am 5. Oktober Interessierte zu einem offenen Austausch \u00fcber Open Science als Gestaltungsaufgabe zusammen. Wir widmen uns der Frage, welche Rolle wissenschaftsunterst\u00fctzende Einrichtungen spielen, wenn es um neue Ans\u00e4tze in der Forschungsbewertung, nachhaltige Infrastrukturen und digitale Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t im Spannungsfeld geopolitischer Entwicklungen geht.

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8. Oktober, Originale erhalten: Demokratie sichern, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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In Archiven, Bibliotheken und anderen Ged\u00e4chtniseinrichtungen lagern bundesweit gef\u00e4hrdete Originale, die Meinungsvielfalt, Rechtsordnungen, historische Entwicklungen und politisches Handeln dokumentieren. Der Erhalt dieser \u00dcberlieferungen ist Grundvoraussetzung f\u00fcr eine quellen- und faktenbasierte Forschung, eine historische Aufarbeitung sowie die Sichtbarmachung gesellschaftlicher Mehrstimmigkeit und Diskurse. Originalerhalt ist grundlegender Bestandteil der Informationssicherung und ein wichtiger Beitrag zu einer lebendigen, urteilsf\u00e4higen und wehrhaften Demokratie \u2013 insbesondere angesichts der zunehmenden Bedrohung durch hybride Desinformation und andere demokratiegef\u00e4hrdende Entwicklungen.

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15. Oktober, FDM-Sprechstunde Humanities@NFDI, online

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Die FDM-Sprechstunde Humanities@NFDI ist eine Online-Beratung f\u00fcr Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende aus Forschungs- und Sammlungsinstitutionen zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. Expert:innen aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen NFDI-Konsortien NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Objects und Text+ stehen f\u00fcr Ihre Fragen zu allen Themen rund ums Forschungsdatenmanagement bereit. Bei Bedarf k\u00f6nnen Einzelgespr\u00e4che in Breakoutr\u00e4umen vertieft werden.

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19.-25. Oktober, International Open Access Week: The Cost of Knowledge, online und an diversen Orten

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Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of knowledge comes at a cost. This year's theme challenges us to consider the financial, human, and environmental costs of creating, sharing, and sustaining knowledge\u2014particularly when these costs are driven by private rather than public interests. Last year's theme of \"Who owns our knowledge?\" reflected on the reality of commercial ownership of knowledge. This year's theme will reckon with the costs of that reality and avenues for reclaiming control of these systems meant to serve the public interest.

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21. Oktober, Aktionstag Forschungsdaten@BUA, FU Berlin

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Der Aktionstag \"Forschungsdaten@BUA\" l\u00e4dt erstmals Forschende der Berlin University Alliance herzlich ein, \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten ins Gespr\u00e4ch zu kommen, sich auszutauschen und zu vernetzen. Ziel ist es, Best Practices sichtbar zu machen, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und den Dialog \u00fcber den Umgang mit Forschungsdaten \u00fcber die vier BUA-H\u00e4user hinweg auszubauen.

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19. Oktober, Rechtssichere Anwendung von K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz im Forschungsdatenmanagement, HU Berlin

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In diesem Workshop lernen die Teilnehmenden datenschutzkonforme KI-Anwendungen und Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten kennen, die neue Wege f\u00fcr die Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten erm\u00f6glichen und zur Verbesserung von Datenqualit\u00e4t, Metadatenverf\u00fcgbarkeit und Zug\u00e4nglichkeit beitragen. Mithilfe konkreter Anwendungsf\u00e4lle aus der Forschung werden die rechtssicheren Einsatzm\u00f6glichkeiten der KI im Datenlebenzyklus vorgestellt.

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20. Oktober, OpenRefine \u2013 Effiziente Datenbereinigung f\u00fcr das Forschungsdatenmanagement, HU Berlin

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Der Workshop f\u00fchrt in die Grundfunktionen von OpenRefine ein und zeigt an konkreten Anwendungsf\u00e4llen, wie Forschende tabellarische Datens\u00e4tze bereinigen, strukturieren und anreichern k\u00f6nnen. Dabei werden auch geskriptete Bearbeitungsschritte sowie der Import und Export verschiedener Datenformate (CSV, XML, JSON) behandelt. OpenRefine erm\u00f6glicht nicht nur einen schnellen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber gro\u00dfe Datens\u00e4tze, sondern hilft vor allem bei heterogenen und historisch gewachsenen Datens\u00e4tze, die oft inkonsistente Metadaten aufweisen.

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20. Oktober, Introduction to electronic lab notebooks (ELN), online

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Der Workshop gibt einen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber ELN-Konzepte, zeigt relevante Forschungsdatenmanagement-Aspekte auf und bietet eine praktische Einf\u00fchrung.

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22. Oktober, FAIR und reproduzierbar: Tidy Data, Versionskontrolle & Wikidata in der Forschungspraxis, online

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Im Rahmen dieses Hands-on-Workshops werden Konzepte zum effizienten, reproduzierbaren und nachvollziehbaren Arbeiten mit Forschungsdaten vermittelt. Ziel ist es, die Teilnehmenden mit verschiedenen Werkzeugen vertraut zu machen und das Bewusstsein f\u00fcr Computational Thinking, Automatisierung sowie die Optimierung eigener Arbeitsprozesse zu sch\u00e4rfen.

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26. Oktober, Urheberrecht in der Forschung: Daten sicher nutzen, teilen, publizieren, FU Berlin

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Im Forschungsalltag stehen Forschende regelm\u00e4\u00dfig vor urheberrechtlichen Fragen: Welche Inhalte darf ich in meiner Arbeit verwenden? Unter welchen Bedingungen kann ich Daten und Materialien offen teilen? Wie gehe ich mit KI-Tools und deren Trainingsdaten rechtssicher um? Dieser Workshop bietet praxisnahe Orientierung f\u00fcr den sicheren Umgang mit gesch\u00fctzten Inhalten und Lizenzen in der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit.

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10., 17.,\u00a024. November, Workshop Series „AI in Research Data Management: Balancing Efficiency and Responsibility“, online

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In our three-part workshop series, we explore the relationship between the technical aspects, practical applications and critical reflection of the use of AI in research data management. Participants will learn about various AI tools and use cases for research data management, test, and develop criteria for the meaningful and responsible use of AI in their own work.

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weiter zu November 2026 [in K\u00fcrze]

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Die Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg freut sich sehr, dass gleich zwei Mitarbeitende aus dem mit uns assoziierten BMFSJF-gef\u00f6rderten Verbundprojekt Vernetzung, Erweiterung, St\u00e4rkung der OER Community OpenRewi (VEStOR) mit dem diesj\u00e4hrigen Professor-H\u00fcrlimann-Gedenkstipendium\u00a0ausgezeichnet wurden: Evin Dalkilic erh\u00e4lt das Stipendium f\u00fcr ihr langj\u00e4hriges Engagement beim Verfassungsblog. Philipp Falkenburg (VuK / VEStOR) bekommt die Anerkennung f\u00fcr sein Engagement bei der Vermittlung und Vernetzung zwischen Communities of Practice.
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\"Diese Auszeichnung zeigt, wie wichtig disziplin\u00fcbergreifende Zusammenarbeit f\u00fcr den Kulturwandel in der Rechtswissenschaft ist. Evin und Philipp stehen genau f\u00fcr das, wof\u00fcr VEStOR steht\", so Prof. Dr. Ellen Euler von der Fachhochschule Potsdam und Projektleiterin von VEStOR.
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Evin Dalkilic (ORCID: 0009-0008-2234-2323) setzte sich beim Verfassungsblog im Rahmen mehrerer Projekte \u2013 darunter ELADOAH, OZOR und VEStOR \u2013 \u00fcber viele Jahre f\u00fcr einen Kulturwandel in der Rechtswissenschaft ein. Ihre Perspektive beschreibt sie folgenderma\u00dfen:
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\"Bildungschancen sind in Deutschland ungleich verteilt \u2013 wer keinen privilegierten Zugang hat, ist strukturell benachteiligt. Open Access kann das ausgleichen, deshalb setze ich mich f\u00fcr offene rechtswissenschaftliche Bildungsmaterialien f\u00fcr alle ein\", so Evin Dalkilic.
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Philipp Falkenburg (ORCID: 0000-0001-9788-8277) arbeitet als Informationswissenschaftler bei der Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg und hat sich, wie nur wenige Nichtjurist:innen, tief in die Forschungslogik und Arbeitsprozesse der Rechtswissenschaft eingearbeitet und diese konstruktiv weiterentwickelt:
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\"Ich sehe mich als Br\u00fcckenbauer zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Informationswissenschaft liefert das Ger\u00fcst, ohne das Open Access nicht funktioniert\", so Philipp Falkenburg.
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Das Gedenkstipendium erinnert an Prof. Dr. Daniel H\u00fcrlimann (1985\u20132022), Mitbegr\u00fcnder des jurOA-Netzwerks und erster Schweizer Professor f\u00fcr Rechtsinformatik. Es wird an Wissenschaftler*innen und Engagierte zur W\u00fcrdigung eines herausragenden Einsatzes f\u00fcr Open Access in der Rechtswissenschaft bzw. den offenen Zugang zu rechtswissenschaftlichem Wissen vergeben.
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Der Ende Juli verabschiedete Regierungsentwurf des KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetzes (KIMVG) will eine breite Rechtsgrundlage f\u00fcr den Einsatz von K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in Visa-, Aufenthalts- und Asylverfahren schaffen. Der Gesetzesentwurf sieht vor, personenbezogene Daten f\u00fcr die Entwicklung eigener KI-Systeme zu verarbeiten, Antr\u00e4ge automatisiert mit \u00f6ffentlich zug\u00e4nglichen Internetquellen abzugleichen und ein KI-gest\u00fctztes Verfahrensmonitoring einzuf\u00fchren. Die Bundesregierung begr\u00fcndet das Gesetz mit dem Verweis auf knappe Ressourcen und dem Ziel, Effizienz, Qualit\u00e4t und Sicherheit der Verfahren zu verbessern. Gleichzeitig weisen zivilgesellschaftliche Akteur*innen auf rechtliche L\u00fccken, zu weitreichende Befugnisse und eine Vielzahl offener Fragen hin. Dieser Blogpost analysiert die Grundelemente des KIMVG, gibt einen \u00dcberblick \u00fcber die Einsch\u00e4tzungen und Kritik der Zivilgesellschaft und diskutiert die Wichtigkeit einer breiten gesellschaftlichen Beteiligung bei der Diskussion \u00fcber die Regulierung von KI-Systemen in der Migrations- und Asylverwaltung.

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Am 29.07.2026 beschloss das Bundeskabinett den Regierungsentwurf des sogenannten KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetzes (KIMVG), der zu einer Weichenstellung f\u00fcr die Zukunft der deutschen Asyl- und Migrationsverwaltung werden k\u00f6nnte. Mit \u00c4nderungen und Erg\u00e4nzungen des Asylgesetzes und des Aufenthaltsgesetzes will der Entwurf eine breite Rechtsgrundlage f\u00fcr den Einsatz von KI in der Migrationsverwaltung schaffen, konkret bei Visa-, Aufenthalts- und Asylverfahren. Dies betrifft insbesondere drei Punkte: Erstens, ein \"automatisiertes Verfahrensmonitoring\", bei dem abgeschlossene Verfahren KI-gest\u00fctzt ausgewertet werden sollen, um Entscheidungsstrukturen zu identifizieren und Potenziale f\u00fcr Standardisierung und Beschleunigung zu erkennen. Zweitens \u2013 bei begr\u00fcndeten Zweifeln \u2013 ein automatisierter Abgleich von Angaben mit Quellen aus dem Internet, zum Beispiel aus sozialen Netzwerken. Drittens, eine Nutzung von personenbezogenen Daten, um beh\u00f6rdliche KI-Systeme zuk\u00fcnftig zu trainieren, zu validieren und zu testen. Das beim Bundesministerium des Inneren (BMI) angesiedelte Gesetzgebungsverfahren geht auf ein Eckpunktepapier des BMI und des Ausw\u00e4rtigen Amts (AA) von 2025 zur\u00fcck. Nach Ver\u00f6ffentlichung des ersten Referentenentwurfs des KIMVG am 25.06.2026 wurden eine Reihe von Verb\u00e4nden und zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen um Stellungnahme innerhalb einer Woche gebeten. Die Kurzfristigkeit wurde von allen stellungnehmenden Akteur*innen kritisiert. Der Deutsche Caritasverband e.V. schreibt beispielsweise, dass \"eine vertiefte fachliche und rechtliche Pr\u00fcfung des Entwurfs [angesichts der au\u00dferordentlich kurzen Frist] nicht m\u00f6glich war\". Als n\u00e4chste Schritte im Gesetzgebungsverfahren folgen Abstimmungen im Bundestag und Bundesrat \u2013 eine genaue Timeline ist jedoch zum aktuellen Zeitpunkt ungewiss.

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Was versteht die Bundesregierung als zentrales Problem?

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Bereits das Eckpunktepapier von AA und BMI von 2025 begr\u00fcndet die Notwendigkeit f\u00fcr KI und Automatisierung mit Verweis auf \"gesteigerte Effizienz\" und \"mehr Sicherheit\". Durch (Teil-)Automatisierung sollen Verfahren \"schneller und weniger ressourcenintensiv\" und Wartezeiten verk\u00fcrzt werden, wodurch insbesondere die Fachkr\u00e4fteeinwanderung profitiere. Ebenso verweist der Regierungsentwurf des KIMVG auf \"stetig steigende Antragsaufkommen\", begrenzte personelle und organisatorische Kapazit\u00e4ten, sowie eine uneinheitliche Verwaltungspraxis und Rechtsanwendung. Das Gesetz solle nun einen \"rechtssicheren und datenschutzkonformen Rahmen\" schaffen, um \"durch den Einsatz digitaler Verfahren \u2013 insbesondere K\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz \u2013 die Effizienz, Einheitlichkeit, Qualit\u00e4t und Sicherheit\" der Verfahren zu erh\u00f6hen.

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Der Regierungsentwurf des KIMVG wird damit durchg\u00e4ngig mit einer bestimmten Problemdiagnose begr\u00fcndet: Komplexe rechtliche Vorgaben, die Vielzahl von Antragsstrecken und Antr\u00e4gen f\u00fchrten zu einer uneinheitlichen Verwaltungspraxis; ohne strukturelle Anpassungen sei angesichts begrenzter Ressourcen eine zus\u00e4tzliche Belastung der Verfahren absehbar. Diese Diagnose trifft ein reales Problem: Der \u00f6ffentliche Dienst in Deutschland und insbesondere die Ausl\u00e4nderbeh\u00f6rden leiden unter Personalmangel, und langwierige Verfahren belasten sowohl Antragsstellende als auch die zust\u00e4ndigen Beamt*innen. Was die Antragszahlen betrifft, ist die Faktenlage jedoch weniger eindeutig. Die Gesamtzahl der Asylantr\u00e4ge beispielsweise sank von 330.000 im Jahr 2023 auf rund 130.000 im Jahr 2025.

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Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es bemerkenswert, dass der Entwurf KI als einzig denkbare und kostenneutrale L\u00f6sung darstellt und dabei zus\u00e4tzliche Ressourcen f\u00fcr die Ausl\u00e4nderbeh\u00f6rden oder vereinfachte Verfahrensregeln als Alternativen ebenso ausblendet wie die Kosten, die mit der Einf\u00fchrung von KI einhergehen werden. Die Forschung warnt vor der Annahme, dass die Einf\u00fchrung von KI in der \u00f6ffentlichen Verwaltung automatisch Kosteneinsparungen und Effizienzgewinne mit sich bringt. Wie auch die Deutsche Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) in ihrer Stellungnahme zum Regierungsentwurf anmerkt, erfordert eine weitergehende Digitalisierung und die Einf\u00fchrung von KI in der deutschen Migrationsverwaltung zun\u00e4chst zus\u00e4tzliches Personal, Schulungen und technische Infrastruktur \u2013 Kosten, die der Entwurf nicht ber\u00fccksichtigt. Die Argumentation im Entwurf steht f\u00fcr eine allgemeinere Tendenz, ein im Kern politisches Problem \u2013 Personalmangel, Ressourcenverteilung, komplexe verwaltungs- und rechtstechnische Sachverhalte \u2013 vorrangig durch neue Technologie l\u00f6sen zu wollen.

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Was kritisieren Interessengruppen und Zivilgesellschaft?

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Im Rahmen des Gesetzgebungsprozesses ver\u00f6ffentlichte das BMI sechs Stellungnahmen von Bundesvereinigungen, Verb\u00e4nden und B\u00fcrgerrechtsorganisationen: der AWO Bundesverband e.V., die Bundesvereinigung der kommunalen Spitzenverb\u00e4nde, die Deutsche Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) e.V., der Deutsche Caritasverband e.V., Pro Asyl sowie Statefree e.V. Dar\u00fcber hinaus kommentierten weitere Akteur*innen den Gesetzesentwurf auf ihren eigenen Webseiten, wie beispielsweise netzpolitik.org, AlgorithmWatch oder auch die Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Informatik e.V.

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Mehrere Verb\u00e4nde erkennen an, dass die Digitalisierung der Migrationsverwaltung dringend n\u00f6tig ist, um Verfahren zu beschleunigen. Dennoch dominiert in den Stellungnahmen eine eher kritische Haltung, insbesondere mit Blick auf drei Punkte: (1) den fehlenden und unzureichenden Rechtsschutz; (2) Risiken von Diskriminierung und Bias; und (3) die Vagheit des Entwurfs, auch hinsichtlich der Entscheidungsmacht von KI-Systemen.

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Ein erster Kritikpunkt, der sich durch nahezu alle Stellungnahmen der Verb\u00e4nde zieht, betrifft die Vereinbarkeit mit Datenschutz, Verfassungsrecht und EU-Recht. Mehrere Verb\u00e4nde \u00e4u\u00dfern datenschutzrechtliche Bedenken, da die Nutzung personenbezogener Daten insgesamt zu umfassend sei. Der Entwurf erlaubt, unter bestimmten Umst\u00e4nden, auch die Verwendung nicht anonymisierter Daten. Hinsichtlich des Verfahrensmonitorings sollen selbst biometrische Daten weiterverarbeitet werden k\u00f6nnen, wenn ihre Aussonderung \"technisch unm\u00f6glich ist oder unverh\u00e4ltnism\u00e4\u00dfig hohen technischen Aufwand erfordert\". Auch ist fraglich, ob sensible, personenbezogene Daten wieder vollst\u00e4ndig gel\u00f6scht werden k\u00f6nnen, nachdem sie f\u00fcr die Entwicklung von KI-Systemen und insbesondere von Large Language Models (LLMs) genutzt wurden \u2013 Modelle, die basierend auf gro\u00dfen Datenmengen darauf abzielen, menschliche Sprache zu analysieren und zu generieren. Laut Pro Asyl verfehle der Entwurf au\u00dferdem die Anforderungen an gerechte und faire Verwaltungsverfahren im Sinne grundrechtskonformer Verfahrensgestaltung und effektiven Rechtsschutzes und schaffe stattdessen die Grundlage f\u00fcr \"intransparente, algorithmisch gesteuerte Entscheidungsprozesse\". Zwar postuliert der Entwurf, allgemein mit dem EU-Recht konform zu sein, doch werden mehreren Verb\u00e4nden und auch Wissenschaftler*innen zufolge Vorgaben hinsichtlich der EU Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) und der EU KI-Verordnung (KI-VO) missachtet. So beruft sich der Gesetzentwurf beispielsweise auf \u00a7 10 Abs. 3 der KI-VO, wonach Trainingsdaten \"relevant, hinreichend repr\u00e4sentativ, fehlerfrei und vollst\u00e4ndig\" sein m\u00fcssen. Wie die Deutsche Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) in ihrer Stellungnahme betont, ist dies im Migrationskontext eine hohe H\u00fcrde: Das Ausl\u00e4nderzentralregister (AZR), das weitgehend auf denselben Datenquellen basiert, mit denen die KI sehr wahrscheinlich trainiert werden w\u00fcrde, weist bekannterma\u00dfen erhebliche Genauigkeitsdefizite auf, die dadurch versch\u00e4rft werden, dass sich viele der relevanten Merkmale schnell \u00e4ndern und veralten.

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Ein zweiter akteurs\u00fcbergreifender Kritikpunkt betrifft Fragen rund um Diskriminierung und Bias der geplanten KI-Systeme. Der Entwurf nimmt die Beh\u00f6rden in die Pflicht, keine diskriminierenden Algorithmen herauszubilden oder zu verwenden, ohne jedoch zu erl\u00e4utern, wie das sichergestellt werden soll. Konkret besteht hier ein zentrales technisches Problem: Gro\u00dfe Sprachmodelle generieren Outputs durch erlernte Muster und statistische Wahrscheinlichkeiten auf Grundlage von Trainingsdaten. Werden umfassende Daten aus bereits abgeschlossenen Verfahren als Grundlage f\u00fcr ein KI-Training genutzt, k\u00f6nnten bereits existierende Verzerrungen reproduziert werden. So k\u00f6nne die Datengrundlage bei der KI-Entwicklung je nach Auswahl diskriminierende Stereotype widerspiegeln oder festigen, warnt Pro Asyl. Eine wirksame Gegenma\u00dfnahme bestehe, der Deutschen Vereinigung f\u00fcr Datenschutz (DVD) zufolge, beispielsweise in verpflichtenden, externen und unabh\u00e4ngigen Kontrollverfahren.

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Ein dritter Kritikpunkt der Organisationen betrifft die Vagheit und mangelnde Bestimmtheit des Entwurfs, insbesondere mit Blick auf die Frage, wie viel Entscheidungsmacht KI-Systeme in Verfahren perspektivisch h\u00e4tten. Laut Entwurf verbleiben individuelle verfahrenstechnische Entscheidungen weiterhin in menschlicher Verantwortung und das BMI betont im Regierungsentwurf, dass \"die individuelle Pr\u00fcfung vollst\u00e4ndig in der Verantwortung der zust\u00e4ndigen Mitarbeitenden liege\". Hier kritisieren Verb\u00e4nde allerdings, dass unklar bleibt, wie dem sogenannten Automation-Bias vorgebeugt werden soll \u2013 also der Tendenz, maschinellen Entscheidungen eher zu vertrauen als dem menschlichen Urteil. Ohne flankierende Ma\u00dfnahmen k\u00f6nnten Entscheidungen so faktisch KI-basiert erfolgen. Die Stellungnahmen fordern hier mehrfach eine verbindliches Human-in-the-Loop-Prinzip und eine klarere Definition des Verh\u00e4ltnisses zwischen der KI-Nutzung f\u00fcr das allgemeine Verfahrensmonitoring und der Einzelfallentscheidung.

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Unklarheiten bestehen jedoch nicht nur hinsichtlich der Entscheidungsmacht, sondern ziehen sich durch den gesamten Regierungsentwurf. Die Verb\u00e4nde kritisieren, dass weitreichende Rechtsgrundlagen f\u00fcr den KI-Einsatz geschaffen werden, ohne hinreichend festzulegen, welche konkreten Systeme k\u00fcnftig f\u00fcr welche Zwecke eingesetzt werden d\u00fcrfen und wo ihre Grenzen liegen. Der AWO Bundesverband e.V. bem\u00e4ngelt entsprechend, dass von regelbasierter Dokumentenerkennung bis zur vollautomatisierten Risikoeinsch\u00e4tzung nahezu alle Szenarien denkbar seien.

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Angesichts dieser sich durch den Entwurf ziehenden Unklarheiten fordern Verb\u00e4nde teils eine intensive \u00dcberarbeitung, teils ein Zur\u00fcckziehen des Entwurfs.

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Was dar\u00fcber hinaus noch offen bleibt

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\u00dcber die drei zentralen Kritikpunkte der Zivilgesellschaft und Interessengruppen hinaus l\u00e4sst der Entwurf eine lange Liste weiterer Fragen unbeantwortet. Welche Transparenzma\u00dfnahmen w\u00fcrden f\u00fcr Migrantinnen und Asylbewerberinnen gelten, deren F\u00e4lle analysiert werden? Wie w\u00fcrden Sachbearbeiter*innen im Umgang mit diesen Systemen geschult? Wie lie\u00dfe sich verhindern, dass im Zuge einer uneinheitlich fortschreitenden Digitalisierung parallele, inkompatible Systeme zwischen den Beh\u00f6rden entstehen? Wie w\u00fcrden die Systeme der Komplexit\u00e4t unterschiedlicher Verfahrensarten und individueller Umst\u00e4nde gerecht werden?

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Bei vielen der Vorschl\u00e4ge des Entwurfs h\u00e4ngt es au\u00dferdem von der technischen Ausgestaltung und flankierenden Ma\u00dfnahmen, zum Beispiel Schulungen ab, wie rechtskonform und gewinnbringend sie f\u00fcr die Verwaltung aber auch Antragsstellende sein k\u00f6nnen. Das automatisierte Verfahrensmonitoring beispielsweise ist laut Entwurf auf die Gewinnung \"verallgemeinerungsf\u00e4higer Erkenntnisse\" ausgerichtet. Einerseits kann die Analyse vergangener Entscheidungen dazu beitragen, Inkonsistenzen, Diskriminierungsmuster oder strukturelle Fehlentwicklungen in der bisherigen Entscheidungspraxis sichtbar zu machen. Andererseits kann dieselbe Analyse eine normalisierende Wirkung entfalten, indem bestehende Entscheidungsmuster zum Ausgangspunkt f\u00fcr die Weiterentwicklung zuk\u00fcnftiger Verfahren werden. Insbesondere in Asylverfahren, in denen Anerkennungsquoten auch f\u00fcr Personen der gleichen Nationalit\u00e4t, mit \u00e4hnlichen Schutzgesuchen von politischen Faktoren beeinflusst werden und \u00fcber die Zeit variieren k\u00f6nnen, stellt sich die Frage, wie genau \"Muster\" erkannt und aktuelle Entscheidungspraktiken beeinflussen sollen.

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Nat\u00fcrlich l\u00e4sst sich nicht erwarten, dass ein Gesetzentwurf all diese Fragen bereits abschlie\u00dfend beantwortet. Bemerkenswert ist dennoch, wie unbestimmt der Entwurf an zentralen Stellen bleibt. Der Umfang dieser offenen Fragen ist selbst Teil der Kritik, wie auch zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und Wissenschaftler*innen anmerken: Ein Gesetz, das eine dauerhafte Rechtsgrundlage f\u00fcr den Einsatz von KI in der Migrationsverwaltung schaffen soll, \u00fcberl\u00e4sst zahlreiche operative Details \u2013 jene Details also, die dar\u00fcber entscheiden w\u00fcrden, ob die Systeme in der Praxis fair, nachvollziehbar und wirksam sind und wie stark KI die tats\u00e4chliche Entscheidungsfindung beeinflusst \u2013 einer sp\u00e4teren Kl\u00e4rung.

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KI in der Migrationsverwaltung weiterdenken

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Neben Kritikpunkten an dem konkreten Gesetzentwurf kristallisieren sich auch einige grunds\u00e4tzliche Fragen sowohl zum Prozess der Gesetzfindung als auch allgemein zum Einsatz von KI in der Migrationsverwaltung heraus. In Zeiten, in denen Digitalisierung bereits ein nicht wegzudenkender Bestandteil in der Gesellschaft scheint, geht es dabei vor allem um die Frage wie diese neue Dimension der Digitalisierung gestaltet werden kann, wer dabei beteiligt werden sollte und was wir aus anderen Kontexten lernen k\u00f6nnen.

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Fragen dieser Tragweite w\u00fcrden eigentlich eine breite gesellschaftspolitische Debatte erfordern. Eine solche Debatte hat bislang jedoch kaum stattgefunden \u2013 die Bundesregierung treibt den Gesetzgebungsprozess stattdessen mit erkennbarem zeitlichem Druck voran, was sich auch in der kurzen Beteiligungsfrist der Verb\u00e4nde widerspiegelt. Der Zeitdruck auf Seiten der Regierung geht bereits aus dem Eckpunktepapier von AA und BMI von 2025 hervor, wenn beispielsweise ein \"schneller, wirksamer und sicherer Modernisierungserfolg\" als erkl\u00e4rtes Ziel formuliert wird. Auch sah das Papier f\u00fcr den Sommer dieses Jahres eigentlich bereits die Verabschiedung des Gesetzes durch den Bundestag vor.

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Dem entgegen steht die Position, wonach eine potenziell so grundlegende Neuausrichtung der Migrationsverwaltung und Entscheidungspraxis durch zentrale Akteur*innen des Politikfeldes vorbereitet und durch den Gesetzgebungsprozess hinweg begleitet werden muss. So fordert der AWO Bundesverband e.V. beispielsweise \"eine sorgf\u00e4ltige rechtliche, ethische und praktische Pr\u00fcfung\", die viele der grunds\u00e4tzlichen Fragen vor einer Einf\u00fchrung von KI-Systemen beleuchten m\u00fcsse. Konkret schl\u00e4gt der Verband deshalb eine unabh\u00e4ngige und interdisziplin\u00e4r besetzte Expert*innenkommission vor, um zun\u00e4chst zu pr\u00fcfen, \"ob und unter welchen Voraussetzungen der Einsatz von KI-Systemen in Verwaltungsverfahren mit den Anforderungen des Rechtsstaats sowie den Rechten der Betroffenen vereinbar ist\". Offen bleibt zudem, welche Akteur*innen die von KI-Systemen Betroffenen angemessen repr\u00e4sentieren k\u00f6nnen bzw. wie Migrant*innen selbst \u2013 beispielsweise durch Akteur*innen wie das Refugee Advisory Board (RAB) Germany oder die Vielzahl von Migrant*innenorganisationen\u2013 den Gesetzgebungsprozess beeinflussen k\u00f6nnen.

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Eine angemessene Beteiligung verschiedener Akteur*innen und eine gesellschaftspolitische Diskussion solch weitreichender Entscheidungen ist nicht nur demokratietheoretisch w\u00fcnschenswert, sondern letztlich auch f\u00fcr das Gelingen KI-gest\u00fctzter Verfahren entscheidend. Eine Vielzahl wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten hat bisherige \u2013 eher top-down initiierte \u2013 Bestrebungen, KI im Bereich Migration und Asyl einzusetzen, kritisch beleuchtet: etwa die Dialekterkennungssoftware des BAMF oder den Einsatz des Geomatch-Algorithmus in den Niederlanden, der mittlerweile bereits in der Pilotphase gestoppt wurde. Zuvor hatten Forschungsarbeiten auf die diskriminierenden Wirkweisen des zugrundeliegenden Algorithmus hingewiesen. Solche Systeme sind nicht nur mit Blick auf die Betroffenen h\u00f6chst problematisch und k\u00f6nnen zu Verletzungen von Grund- und Menschenrechten f\u00fchren, sondern k\u00f6nnen letztlich auch einen Reputationsschaden f\u00fcr die zust\u00e4ndigen Regierungen mit sich bringen.

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Dass KI und Digitalisierung globale Mobilit\u00e4t ma\u00dfgeblich ver\u00e4ndern und Chancen, Herausforderungen sowie Risiken f\u00fcr das Migrationsmanagement in der EU und Deutschland mit sich bringen, r\u00fcckt zunehmend in den Fokus wissenschaftlicher und gesellschaftspolitscher Debatten. Obwohl das KIMVG ein konkretes Beispiel daf\u00fcr ist, wie Gesetzgebung diese Chancen und Herausforderungen gestalten kann, findet die Auseinandersetzung bislang vor allem in Fachkreisen statt. In der breiteren \u00d6ffentlichkeit und den gro\u00dfen Medien wird der Entwurf bisher nur punktuell aufgegriffen. Das erschwert insbesondere Betroffenen \u2013 zus\u00e4tzlich zur juristischen Komplexit\u00e4t des Gesetzes \u2013 den Zugang zum Diskurs. Insgesamt macht der Entwurf deutlich, dass Fragen des KI-Einsatzes in der Migrations- und Asylverwaltung zweierlei ben\u00f6tigen: einen pr\u00e4zise formulierten und grundrechtskonformen rechtlichen Rahmen genauso wie eine grunds\u00e4tzliche gesellschaftliche Debatte dar\u00fcber, welchen Stellenwert KI und Automatisierungen in grundrechtssensiblen Verfahren haben sollten und ob und wie sie halten k\u00f6nnen, was sie versprechen.

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Eine englischsprachige, k\u00fcrzere Version dieses Posts wurde auf TechPolicy Press ver\u00f6ffentlicht.

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A recently published article addresses[1] the long standing problem of why transition metals complexes such as e.g. Cp2TiCl2 in the presence of solutions of polysulfide dianions containing sulfur chains of various lengths, can react to form sulfur ring complexes of a specific size, depending on the metal. Thus when the early transition metal is Ti (Cp = cyclopentadienyl) it forms only the six membered ring shown below (X=S), with none of the five-membered/four-sulfur ring present. However, other central and later transition period metals only form four-sulfur rings.[1]
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\nThe effect was attributed to the degree of overlap\u00a0of a localised sulfur p-orbital with a vacant Ti d-orbital as shown below (Figure 1. click on the diagram to get a 3D model).

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\nFigure 1. Overlap between a sulfur p-donor and a titanium d-acceptor.

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One quantative estimate of the magnitude of the effect can be obtained using the NBO7 method[2], which provides a value for the perturbation interaction energy between the filled donor orbital (the S p-orbital) and the empty acceptor orbital (the Ti d-orbital) as a so-called E(2) energy. Thus in the article[1] the E(2) energy for the Ti six-membered complex shown above was reported as 21.2 kcal/mol (Table below) whereas for the analogous five-ring (for which the overlap between the two orbitals is less good) the value was 11.0 kcal/mol. This effect can be related [1] to the relative (free energy) stability of the product complex in the above reaction.

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The question now arises whether the effect can be “optimised” by changing some of the ring atoms from S to another. In fact eight crystal structures have been reported with such substitutions (Table) and so here the NBO7 analysis is repeated for these systems and a few other as yet unreported examples.

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Table. NBO7 E(2) interaction energy for variants of Cp2TiS5.
CSD NameRing atomsNBO7 E(2)Ti-S length, \u00c5Ti-S dihedralLit/CSDMN15L/Def2-QZVPP NBO7
CYPTIS01S, S, S, S, S21.202.466, 2.47062.0[3][4]
KIVTOYS, S, Se, Se, Se21.702.47165.7[5][6]
NIRXERS, S, X=N-Me (ax)\u2020, S, S15.352.462, 2.47954.9[7], [8][9]
UnknownS, S, X=P-Me (ax), S, S23.592.45363.5unknown[10]
SEDRUOS, S, X=As-Me(ax), S, S23.492.45465.7[11][12]
SEDRUOS, S, X=As-Me(eq), S, S21.582.460, 2.47064.8\u2020[13]
FEHTOBS, S, X=Cp2TiS5, S, S\u20212.46368.9, 63.9[14][15]
VOSMUOS, S, Se, Se, Se21.702.47265.7[5], [16][17]
VOSNEZS, S,Se, Se, S19.932.463, 2.47565.1, 64.1[5], [18][19]
VOSNAVSe,Se,Se,Se,Se21.38–66.2[20],[21][22]
ZEMXIVS, Se, Se, Se, Se18.652.46767.0[23][24]
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Analysis

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  1. There appears to be a reasonable correction between the NBO E(2) energy and the Ti-S bond length. The shortest bond (X=PMe) corresponds to the highest E(2) value of 23.59 kcal/mol. SEDRUO is a known example (X=AsMe, Figure 2) and X=PMe is worthy of synthesis to reinforce this conclusion.
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  2. The donation from the sulfur\u00a0p-orbital to the Ti d-orbital appears to reach a maximum at\u00a0~65\u00b0, not far off the value for Cp2TiS5 itself (Figure 1).
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  3. The series\u00a0X=NMe, PMe, AsMe is interesting because the Me group has a favoured axial position (Figure 2), by an estimated 10.6 kcal/mol for\u00a0X=NMe. This remarkable preference is probably caused by the bond angle subtended at X, since no strong stereoelectronic effect could be found\u00a0(such as donation from the lone pair on the N/P/As).
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    \nFigure 2.Structure of SEDRUO, showing the strong axial preference.
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  4. X = Cp2TiS5 is interesting because it should exhibit the effect twice, at each Ti. Unfortunately the wavefunction for this species appears to have a pathological problem with converging to an NBO localised solution – we hope to find a solution to this at some stage. The Ti-S bond lengths however do not suggest the effect noted above will be especially high for this species.
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  5. PUJFUV[25] replaces one six-electron Cp ligand metal donor with an apparent two-electron contribution from an 2,6-di-isopropylphenoxy ligand. This has a measured Ti-O bond length of 1.795\u00c5, which is towards the shorter end of the spectrum of Ti-O lengths (which range from ~1.7 to ~2.2\u00c5). This intriguing example will be analysed in a separate post.
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Conclusions

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The effect identified previously[1] which is responsible for the preference of early transition metals such as Ti to form polysulfide rings with five sulfurs rather than four appears to reach a maximum for the known species X=AsMe (Figure 2) or the as yet unmade molecule with X=PMe.

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\u2020The equatorial isomer for X=NMe is a remarkable ~10.6 kcal/mol higher in free energy.[26] whereas for X=AsMe it is reduced to 4.59 kcal/mol. This is probably due to the angle subtended at N/As, which is 117.7\u00b0 for N and 103.6\u00b0 for As, which may also propagate to the values of the dihedral angle. \u2021The NBO7 localisation search terminated unsuccessfully after considering 100000 bonding patterns.

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References

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Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) have long served as more than a hybrid organic-inorganic filler for polymers. Their partially condensed silanol forms present a rigid, oxygen-rich pocket that closely resembles a fragment of amorphous silica, and this pocket is an excellent ligand for metal ions of nearly every part of the periodic table. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been the decisive tool for confirming what these metal-POSS assemblies actually look like, since spectroscopic and computational evidence alone can rarely distinguish between competing cage topologies. This review surveys recent crystallographically confirmed metal-POSS complexes, organized by the metal center, and closes with a synthesis of the structural trends that emerge once the diffraction data are compared side by side.

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POSS as a Ligand Platform for Metal Ions

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The starting point for nearly every metal-POSS complex discussed below is an incompletely condensed silsesquioxane, most often a trisilanol of general formula R7Si7O9(OH)3, in which R is a bulky organic substituent such as cyclohexyl, isobutyl, or phenyl.1 Deprotonation of the three remaining hydroxyl groups generates a trianionic, oxygen-donor pocket that reacts with a metal-organic precursor MR'n to cap the open corner of the cage, expelling the R' groups as volatile byproducts and leaving the metal bound in a fashion reminiscent of a tripodal ligand (Figure 1). Depending on the metal and its coordination requirements, this corner-capped unit can be a stable end point in its own right, as is typical for many main-group and alkaline-earth derivatives, or it can undergo further self-assembly into larger cage structures through bridging oxo, hydroxo, or alkoxo groups, as is the case for most of the transition metal and lanthanide complexes discussed below. Because these frameworks so closely mimic isolated surface sites on silica, they have functioned for decades as molecular models for silica-supported catalysts, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been essential for relating a given coordination geometry to catalytic behavior observed in solution or in the heterogeneous phase.

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Figure 1. General corner-capping strategy for forming a closed-cage metallasilsesquioxane from an open-cage trisilanol and a metal-organic precursor MR'n, where M is a metal from group 1, 2, or 13 of the periodic table, R is an unreactive alkyl or aryl substituent, and R' is an alkyl group or hydrogen.

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Nickel, Manganese, Iron, and Vanadium Cages

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Beyond copper, the same cage-forming chemistry has been extended to several other transition metals, each contributing distinctive structural motifs. A hexanuclear nickel(II) phenylsilsesquioxane, isolated as a dioxane-benzonitrile-water solvate and studied by X-ray and topological analysis, adopts an unusual cylinder-like architecture in which benzonitrile coordinates directly to the metallasilsesquioxane core, a rare mode of complexation for this ligand class.14 This complex was also tested as a catalyst for oxidations with peroxides: tert-butyl hydroperoxide converted 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 90 percent yield after 24 hours, whereas meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid oxidized cyclohexane to a cyclohexanone/cyclohexanol mixture in a more modest 24 percent yield, with methylcyclohexane giving a broader spread of isomeric ketones and alcohols in comparable overall yield.14

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Figure 2. X-ray crystal structure of the cylinder-like Ni6 architecture of Bilyachenko et al., Molecules 2016, 21, 665 (ref. 14), rendered directly from the deposited crystal structure. Top view (left) shows the Ni1, Ni2, and Ni3 pairs forming the Ni6O6 ring sandwiched between the two 12-membered siloxane cycles, with the encapsulated chloride anion at the crystallographic center of inversion. Side view (right) shows the resulting cylinder shape, alongside a detail of the distorted octahedral coordination environment at one nickel center.

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Manganese chemistry has produced an especially structurally diverse series, beginning with the first heterobimetallic Mn/Na and Mn/Li derivatives reported by Lorenz, Blaurock, and Edelmann in 2008, both confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction with manganese-oxygen bond lengths of 1.985(2) to 2.146(2) angstroms in the Mn/Na cage and a narrower 2.046(3) to 2.048(3) angstrom range in the Mn/Li cage. This early series was purely structural in purpose and was reported without any catalytic testing.15 More recent manganese cages incorporating 1,10-phenanthroline or bathophenanthroline ligands have revealed a still more unusual feature, the coexistence of sodium, manganese(II), and manganese(III) within a single cage, a consequence of spontaneous oxidation during self-assembly that only diffraction analysis could unambiguously confirm, with the manganese(III)-oxygen bonds consistently 0.2 to 0.3 angstroms shorter than the corresponding manganese(II)-oxygen bonds in the same cage.16,17 The phenanthroline series was synthesized specifically to evaluate manganese silsesquioxanes as precatalysts for the oxidative amidation of alcohols and aldehydes with tert-butyl hydroperoxide, and at 5 mol percent manganese loading the two simplest cages in the series gave the benzamide product in 84 and 79 percent yield, outperforming a range of simple manganese salts and oxides tested for comparison.16 The bathophenanthroline series was instead developed as a catalyst for the solvent-free cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides, reaching a 90 percent yield of cyclic carbonate under standard conditions and up to 99 percent yield after optimizing the reaction temperature and pressure, roughly double the yield obtained with simple manganese chloride under the same conditions, and the same complexes additionally showed antifungal activity against several phytopathogenic Fusarium and related fungal species that exceeded that of the commercial fungicide triadimefon at equal concentration.17 Iron(III)-based phenylsilsesquioxane/acetylacetonate complexes reported in 2024 show a comparable sensitivity to the identity of the alkali metal template, with lithium, sodium, and potassium each directing the assembly toward a distinct cage size and silsesquioxane ring size, including the first observation of a trimeric silsesquioxane ligand within a metallasilsesquioxane cage.18 Catalytically, the Fe4Na4 congener stood out among the three, reaching a record 55 percent yield of oxygenates in the peroxidative oxidation of cyclohexane, and the series as a whole also promoted the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides, giving cyclic carbonates in 58 to 96 percent yield depending on the substrate.18

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Figure 3 (Fe4Na4 and Fe3K3 renders pending). X-ray crystal structure of the Fe2Li2 cage from the alkali-metal-dependent series of Bilyachenko et al., Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 1909-1918 (ref. 18), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates (CCDC 2263801). The Fe4Na4 (CCDC 2267402) and Fe3K3 (CCDC 2280386) congeners from the same series will be added as companion panels once rendered.

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Vanadium chemistry has taken a different direction altogether, yielding polyoxovanadate clusters protected by silsesquioxane ligands rather than classical cage metallasilsesquioxanes. A fourteen-vanadium cluster represents the highest nuclearity yet reported for this combination, displaying vanadium-oxygen distances of 1.933 to 2.071 angstroms to the silsesquioxane ligands and considerably shorter terminal vanadium-oxo bonds of 1.519 to 1.695 angstroms, while a six-vanadium congener adopts a more regular planar hexagonal arrangement with vanadium-oxygen bonds of 1.987 to 2.006 angstroms and terminal vanadium-oxo bonds of 1.562 to 1.601 angstroms.19 The hexavanadium cluster was developed specifically as a heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of quinazolinones from 2-aminobenzamide and aldehydes, reaching essentially complete conversion with selectivity typically between 90 and 99 percent across a broad substrate scope of electron-rich, electron-poor, heterocyclic, and aliphatic aldehydes, and it clearly outperformed the higher-nuclearity fourteen-vanadium cluster under comparable conditions. The catalyst could be recycled for at least six successive runs with only a negligible loss of conversion and a slight decrease in selectivity, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry confirmed that no more than 0.015 percent of the vanadium content leached into solution during the reaction, supporting its heterogeneous mode of action.

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Zinc-POSS Complexes: Structure and Applications in Catalysis

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Zinc occupies a smaller but catalytically significant niche within this literature. Di Iulio, Jones, Mahon, and Apperley reported in 2010 the first structurally characterized zinc(II) silsesquioxane complexes, describing their solid-state structures as unprecedented at the time and evaluating the resulting compounds as initiators for the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide.20 A structurally distinct approach was taken in our own work on an imine-functionalized POSS ligand, in which the silsesquioxane core and the steric bulk of the imine side arms direct the formation of a tetrazinc complex, denoted Zn4@POSS-1, whose solid-state structure was established by X-ray crystallography alongside an extensive spectroscopic characterization in solution.21 The four zinc centers adopt a distorted tetrahedral geometry, two with a delta and two with a lambda configuration, with Zn-O bond lengths of 1.914(5) to 1.924(4) angstroms and Zn-N bond lengths of 1.979(6) to 2.016(5) angstroms, both ranges comparable to typical Zn(II) Schiff-base complexes, while the silicon-oxygen-silicon angles within the POSS core widen to between 139.6(3) and 167.3(3) degrees at the corners capped by the zinc centers. Zn4@POSS-1 is also structurally distinctive within the broader body of work surveyed in this review. In most of the crystallographically confirmed complexes discussed above, from the copper, manganese, and iron cages to the nickel cylinder and the lanthanide and actinide clusters, the metal centers are encapsulated inside a closed cage, sandwiched between two silsesquioxane ligand planes or embedded within a bridging oxo core sitting at the heart of the assembly. Zn4@POSS-1 departs from this pattern: the four zinc centers are held on the outside of an open, partially condensed POSS scaffold, each capped by one arm of the imine-functionalized ligand rather than being enclosed within a fully closed double-decker or sandwich core. This places Zn4@POSS-1 closer in spirit to the corner-capping assembly mode described for the main-group and alkaline-earth derivatives later in this review, in which a metal center caps an open corner of the cage from the outside, than to the encapsulated, internally templated architectures that dominate the transition-metal and lanthanide chemistry surveyed elsewhere in this article. This complex proved effective as a multisite catalyst for the cycloaddition of CO2 with epoxides to form cyclic carbonates under low CO2 pressure, a transformation of considerable interest for carbon utilization chemistry, and it illustrates how the same coordination chemistry that produces striking copper and manganese cages can be redirected toward small-molecule catalysis when a redox-inactive metal such as zinc is used instead. With styrene oxide as the model substrate, tetrabutylammonium iodide as co-catalyst, and 1 atmosphere of CO2 at 100 degrees Celsius, the catalyst alone was inactive, but the Zn4@POSS-1/TBAI pair reached 96 percent conversion to styrene carbonate at a turnover frequency of 25 per hour, rising to 98 percent conversion at 130 degrees Celsius, and it retained a useful 95 percent conversion even at a ten-fold lower catalyst loading when the reaction time was extended.21

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Figure 4. X-ray crystal structure of Zn4@POSS-1 from Janeta, Lis, Szafert, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 13686-13697 (ref. 21), rendered directly from the deposited crystal structure (CCDC 1504223). The imine-functionalized POSS core is capped by four Zn(II) centers, each chelated by an N,N-imine side arm in the meso-(delta,delta,lambda,lambda) configuration described in the text.

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Lanthanide and Actinide Metallasilsesquioxanes: Magnetism and Luminescence

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Lanthanide-based metallasilsesquioxanes form a comparatively young but fast-moving subfield, motivated by the combination of structural novelty with magnetic and luminescent function. The first CeIV metallasilsesquioxane complex, reported by Gun'ko, Reilly, Edelmann, and Schmidt in 2001, established that even a large, high-valent lanthanide ion could be accommodated within a silsesquioxane coordination environment.22 Lorenz and coworkers subsequently reported an erbium complex in which two silsesquioxane cages become coupled through a bridging siloxy unit, a transformation that had not previously been observed for a lanthanide-templated system.23 Since 2020, a series of tetranuclear cage-like lanthanide silsesquioxanes built around a prism-like Ln4 core has produced some of the most functionally interesting examples in the entire field. Terbium and europium derivatives display the first luminescence reported for a cage-like lanthanide silsesquioxane, and one terbium-based cage additionally exhibits a magnetic spin-flip transition.24

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Figure 5. X-ray crystal structure of the mixed-lanthanide cage anion of (Et4N)2[(PhSiO1.5)8(Y0.75Dy0.25O1.5)4(O)(NO3)6(EtOH)2(MeCN)2], compound 1 of Kulakova et al., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 2696-2701 (ref. 26), CCDC 2062487, rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. Two parallel tetraphenylcyclotetrasiloxanolate macrocycles sandwich a distorted-square (Y0.75Dy0.25O1.5)4 core (left). The tetraethylammonium counter-cation is shown alongside the cage in the side view (right). This is the compound that displays field-induced single-molecule magnet behavior in addition to the characteristic dysprosium green-yellow emission.

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Figure 6. X-ray crystal structure of the homometallic cage anion of (Ph4P)2[(PhSiO1.5)8(DyO1.5)4(O)(NO3)6(EtOH)2(MeCN)2], compound 3 of Kulakova et al., Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 2696-2701 (ref. 26), CCDC 2002355, rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. The same prism-like topology as in Figure 5 is retained with four Dy(III) centers in the core (left). The tetraphenylphosphonium counter-cation is shown alongside the cage (right). Unlike the mixed Y/Dy analogue, this all-dysprosium cage and its tetraethylammonium salt (compound 2, CCDC 2002354, not shown) do not display slow relaxation of the magnetization, a difference attributed to magnetic interactions between the four Dy(III) centers.

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Related dysprosium and yttrium/dysprosium cages combine field-induced single-molecule magnet behavior with green-yellow emission, yielding the first bifunctional magneto-luminescent silsesquioxane reported in the literature, while mixed terbium/europium cages have been developed specifically as luminescent thermometers operating between 41 and 100 degrees Celsius through a temperature-dependent energy transfer between the two lanthanide centers.25,26 A further mixed-lanthanide series combining dysprosium, europium, terbium, and yttrium in various ratios extends this dual functionality: the dysprosium/europium member behaves as a field-induced single-molecule magnet, with an effective energy barrier of 11.3 wavenumbers under an applied direct-current field, while simultaneously operating as a europium-based emissive thermometer across the range of 293 to 373 kelvin, reaching a maximum relative thermal sensitivity of 1.15 percent per kelvin at 293 kelvin, whereas the terbium- and yttrium-containing congeners of the same series show neither slow magnetic relaxation nor temperature-dependent emission.27 At still higher nuclearity, a tridecanuclear gadolinium(III) cluster with an unprecedented body-centered cuboctahedron core represents the highest nuclearity yet reported for a lanthanide silsesquioxane and was synthesized specifically to explore cryogenic magnetic refrigeration, reaching a maximum magnetic entropy change of 20 joules per kilogram per kelvin at 2 kelvin under an applied field of 7.0 tesla.28 Actinide chemistry entered this field only recently, with Tricoire, Mazzanti, and coworkers reporting in 2024 the first trinuclear uranium(III) metallasilsesquioxane, a complex that exhibits magnetic exchange between the three uranium centers and promotes the reduction of dinitrogen in the presence of a reducing agent, with U-O bond lengths ranging from 2.125(16) to 2.568(17) angstroms and an average value of 2.36(2) angstroms.29

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Figure 7. X-ray crystal structure of the first trinuclear U(III) metallasilsesquioxane, [U3(iBuPOSS)3], of Tricoire et al., Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 55-58 (ref. 29), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. The three uranium centers (U1, U2, U3) are arranged in a triangular U3(mu-O)6 core, each capped by one iBuPOSS ligand and linked to its neighbors by bridging siloxide oxygens, with U-O distances ranging from 2.125(16) to 2.568(17) angstroms and an average value of 2.36(2) angstroms, consistent with previously reported U(III) siloxide complexes.

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A smaller number of structurally confirmed metal-POSS complexes involve main-group or alkaline-earth elements rather than transition metals or f-block ions. Duchateau and coworkers prepared a family of tin-containing polyhedral oligometallasilsesquioxanes in 2004 starting from cyclopentyl-substituted silsesquioxane trisilanols. Protonolysis with a tin(II) amide gave three-coordinate Sn(II) dimers of the type [(cyclopentyl)7Si7O11(OX)Sn]2 (compound 2 shown below), which proved hydrolytically unstable and feature a planar, strained (SnO)2 four-membered ring with an O-Sn-O angle of 75.39(13) degrees and an Sn-O-Sn angle of 104.61(13) degrees, the bridging tin-oxygen bonds of 2.177(3) and 2.172(3) angstroms being noticeably longer than the terminal, sigma-bonded tin-oxygen bond of 1.995(3) angstroms, whereas reaction with Cl2Sn(acac)2 gave hydrolytically robust, octahedrally coordinated Sn(IV) mono-tin complexes. Slow hydrolysis of the corresponding tin(IV) chloride cluster instead produced an unprecedented anionic trimeric cluster (compound 6) in which three octahedral Sn(IV) centers are held together by three silsesquioxane cages and four bridging hydroxyl groups, three of them bridging two tin atoms and one bridging all three, with a triethylammonium counterion occupying the remaining corner of the resulting incomplete cube. In this cluster the average tin-oxygen-tin angle at the doubly bridging hydroxyls, 112.3(3) degrees, is noticeably wider than the corresponding angle at the triply bridging hydroxyl, 100.9(3) degrees, while the tin atoms are linked to the silsesquioxane cages by tin-oxygen-silicon bonds averaging 1.974(4) angstroms in length, with a tin-oxygen-silicon angle of about 140 degrees at the monodentate silsesquioxane linkages and about 134 degrees at the bidentate ones. Despite this structural sophistication, none of the tin(IV) complexes showed any catalytic activity when screened in the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone, the Oppenauer oxidation of isopropanol, or the epoxidation of cyclooctene, a result the authors attributed to the coordinative saturation and reduced Lewis acidity of the octahedral, and in one case anionic, tin centers.30

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Figure 8. Left: the anionic trinuclear Sn(IV) cluster {[(cyclopentyl)7Si7O12Sn]3(mu2-OH)3(mu3-OH)}-{HNEt3}+ (compound 6, CCDC 238581). Right: the three-coordinate Sn(II) dimer [(cyclopentyl)7Si7O11(OSiMe3)Sn]2 (compound 2, CCDC 238582), with a center of inversion in the planar (SnO)2 ring. Both structures from Duchateau et al., Dalton Trans. 2004, 2677-2682 (ref. 30), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates.

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Lorenz, Blaurock, and Edelmann reported in the same period the first metallasilsesquioxane derivative of a heavier alkaline-earth metal, a dinuclear calcium complex in which two anionic silsesquioxane cages bridge a pair of unsymmetrically solvated calcium centers.31 Although these examples remain fewer in number than their transition metal and lanthanide counterparts, they demonstrate that the silsesquioxane cage can stabilize an unusually broad span of ionic radii and electronic configurations, from small trivalent tin to large, weakly coordinating alkaline-earth cations.

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Copper Cage Silsesquioxanes: The Dominant Family

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Copper accounts for the largest and most rapidly growing body of crystallographically confirmed metal-POSS chemistry, driven principally by the systematic work of Bilyachenko and coworkers. Across this family the recurring synthetic purpose was catalytic rather than purely structural, since nearly every reported cage was subsequently tested as a precatalyst for the peroxidative oxidation of light alkanes, cyclic hydrocarbons, and secondary alcohols with hydrogen peroxide or tert-butyl hydroperoxide, and crystallographic confirmation of the cage architecture was pursued specifically because catalytic performance was found to depend on the precise nuclearity and connectivity of the metal-oxo core rather than on solution composition alone.2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,13

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The binuclear \"cooling tower\" complex [(PhSiO1.5)10(CuO)2(NaO0.5)2] reported in 2013 established the basic architecture of a copper-silsesquioxane cage, in which cyclic phenylsilsesquioxane ligands sandwich a small metal-oxo core, and its structure was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, with copper-oxygen bond lengths of 1.906(3) to 1.956(4) angstroms and a silicon-oxygen-silicon bridging angle as wide as 166.2(3) degrees.2 The complex was synthesized specifically to probe alkane and alcohol oxidation catalysis, and in benzene oxidation with hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid as promoter it reached a turnover number of 550 and a product yield of up to 41 percent, while oxidation of 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone with tert-butyl hydroperoxide proceeded in a yield approaching 100 percent after four hours.

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Nonanuclear methylsilsesquioxane cages appeared in 2017, alongside trinuclear and hexanuclear congeners obtained from the same reaction system, each nuclearity and connectivity again established by diffraction, with mean copper-copper and copper-oxygen siloxanolate distances of 2.869(5) and 1.935(9) angstroms in the trinuclear cage.3 These complexes were likewise developed as alkane and alcohol oxidation catalysts, and the trinuclear cage converted 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 96 percent yield and cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone in 77 percent yield, while cyclohexane oxidation with hydrogen peroxide reached a total yield of 20 percent and a turnover number of 184, several times higher than the yield obtained with simple copper nitrate under the same conditions.

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A distinct nonanuclear phenylsilsesquioxane cage of Cu9Na6 composition, formed with the assistance of a phenanthroline ligand that does not itself enter the final structure, followed in 2018, together with an ionic Cu9Na4 congener obtained under related conditions.4 Both complexes were prepared as catalysts for the oxidative amidation of benzyl alcohol, a reaction in which the Cu9Na6 cage required only 100 parts per million of copper and reached a turnover number of 7700 and a turnover frequency of 325 per hour, substantially outperforming copper oxide alone under the same conditions, and it additionally converted cyclohexanone or acetophenone in 63 or 98 percent yield in alcohol oxidation with tert-butyl hydroperoxide.

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The coordinating role of the alkali metal cation proved to be a recurring structural variable rather than an incidental detail. Sandwich-like Cu4M2 complexes built around lithium, sodium, and potassium templates, distinguished crystallographically by intramolecular alkali metal to alkali metal separations ranging from 10.35 to 11.45 angstroms, were shown to direct the assembly toward distinct architectures even when the silsesquioxane and transition metal components were otherwise unchanged, although specific catalytic yields for this particular series were not reported in the accessible source text.5 The corresponding rubidium and cesium templated tetracopper cages, resolved crystallographically with rubidium to rubidium separations as long as 9.39 angstroms, were tested extensively as alkane oxidation and carboxylation catalysts, reaching a 35 percent yield and a turnover number of 320 in cyclohexane oxidation with hydrogen peroxide and a 50 percent total yield with a turnover number of 277 in the oxidative carboxylation of n-butane to a mixture of pentanoic acids, in addition to alcohol oxidations that converted 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 98 percent yield.6

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Heptanuclear cages bridged additionally by benzoate ligands were reported between 2019 and 2021, with the three linearly disposed copper centers in the cage subtending an angle of 178.04(2) degrees.7 The heptanuclear complex was again evaluated as an alkane and alcohol oxidation catalyst, converting cyclohexane to a combined yield of 32 percent of alcohol and ketone with a turnover number of 290 within two hours, a result that compared favorably with a copper-sodium silsesquioxane analog tested under the same conditions, and it oxidized the acetophenone precursor 1-phenylethanol with tert-butyl hydroperoxide in 90 percent yield and a turnover number of 900.

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Tetranuclear complexes obtained through the oxidative cleavage of a bis(phosphine) ligand, in this case 1,1-bis(diphenylphosphino)methane, were reported in 2019 as a palanquin-like Cu4Na4 cage in which the shortest distance between opposing silicon atoms of the silsesquioxane ligand measured 5.114 angstroms.8 This complex converted cyclohexane to cyclohexanol in 26 percent yield with a turnover number of 240 and an activation energy of 13.6 kilocalories per mole, and it oxidized 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in essentially quantitative yield.

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Heterometallic Cu4/M4 architectures further diversified the structural landscape reported between 2019 and 2023. A series of eight cesium and rubidium templated Cu4M4 coordination polymers, in which the centers of neighboring cages were separated by 13.97 angstroms in the solid state, were developed for the hydrocarboxylation of cycloalkanes, converting cyclohexane to cyclohexanecarboxylic acid in up to 37.8 percent yield and cyclopentane to the corresponding acid in 26.4 percent yield, in addition to reaching a 45 percent yield in direct cyclohexane oxidation with hydrogen peroxide.9 A related cage-like Cu5Cs4 phenylsilsesquioxane, with cesium to cesium separations of 9.54 and 11.62 angstroms, was instead developed for the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone to epsilon-caprolactone with meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid, reaching a quantitative yield and a turnover number of 250 under microwave irradiation, and it additionally supported a tandem route directly from cyclohexane to the lactone in 17 percent yield, together with alcohol oxidations reaching 90 percent yield in the conversion of 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone.10

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The record for nuclearity in this family has continued to rise, from a Cu12 cage decorated with additional Cu(I) phosphine moieties in 2024, whose copper-copper-copper trimer units are significantly distorted with angles of 140.70 and 141.77 degrees, to a Cu13Na2 cage assembled with the assistance of acetate ligands in 2025, the latter structure solved using synchrotron radiation.11,12 The Cu12 complex proved to be an active catalyst for both the peroxidative oxidation and the oxidative carboxylation of C2 to C4 alkanes, reaching a turnover number of up to 534 in propane oxidation and a 50 percent combined yield of pivalic and isovaleric acids in the carboxylation of isobutane, and it oxidized 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone in 96 percent yield with a turnover number of 960. The Cu13Na2 cage itself was tested as a precatalyst in the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone, reaching essentially quantitative yields of epsilon-caprolactone with meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid as oxidant, and it also supported a direct tandem route from cyclohexane to the same lactone in 25 to 26 percent yield, a modest but meaningful improvement over the heptanuclear Cu7-benzoate congener from the same group on this more demanding substrate.12

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An octanuclear Cu8 complex bearing 3-phenyl-5-(2-pyridyl)pyrazolate ligands, in which two zigzag Cu4 tetramers are sandwiched by two cyclic pentameric silsesquioxane ligands with a longest intramolecular copper to copper separation of 11.08 angstroms, was likewise synthesized as an alkane oxidation catalyst, converting n-heptane to a 14 percent yield of oxidation products and methylcyclohexane to a 15 percent yield under comparable conditions with hydrogen peroxide and nitric acid as promoter.13

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Figure 9. X-ray crystal structure of the record-nuclearity Cu13Na2 cage of Bilyachenko et al., Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31, e202403604 (ref. 12), rendered directly from the deposited crystallographic coordinates. The left view shows the fused copper-siloxanolate core, with the crystallographically independent Cu1 and Cu2 centers and their symmetry-related counterparts (Cu3, Cu4 and primed equivalents) bridged by phenylsiloxanolate oxygens. The right view, rotated to look down the pseudo-macrocyclic axis, shows how the copper centers are threaded through the large siloxanolate ring formed by the ligand framework. Acetate ligands and the two bridging sodium centers that complete the Cu13Na2 formulation lie above and below this copper-rich core and are omitted here for clarity.

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What Crystallography Reveals: Emerging Structural Trends

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Several patterns recur across this body of crystallographic work regardless of which metal is involved. The alkali metal cation present during self-assembly, whether lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, or cesium, is rarely a passive spectator. Its ionic radius consistently governs whether the silsesquioxane ligand adopts a cyclic or acyclic conformation and whether the resulting cage is neutral, cationic, or anionic, a relationship documented independently for copper, manganese, and iron systems. A second recurring theme is the steady increase in reported nuclearity over time within the copper family in particular, from the two-copper cooling tower of 2013 to cages containing twelve or thirteen copper centers within the past two years, a trend that appears to reflect refinements in self-assembly conditions and the increasing use of synchrotron radiation to solve structures that would otherwise diffract poorly. Finally, the correlation between confirmed cage topology and function, whether catalytic activity in oxidation chemistry, single-molecule magnet behavior, or luminescence thermometry, illustrates why single-crystal X-ray diffraction remains indispensable in this field rather than a merely confirmatory afterthought. Spectroscopic and computational methods can propose a plausible structure, but only diffraction data have consistently distinguished between the closely related cage topologies that give rise to markedly different physical and chemical properties.

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Conclusions and Outlook

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The metal-POSS complexes surveyed here span nearly the entire periodic table, from copper cages of steadily increasing nuclearity to the first actinide example reported only in 2024, and in every case single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been the method that transformed a plausible formula into a confirmed molecular structure. The copper family in particular continues to grow at a pace that suggests further records in nuclearity are likely within the next few years, while the lanthanide and actinide subfields remain comparatively open for structural discovery. For a research program centered on zinc Schiff base and imine-functionalized POSS chemistry, the comparative view offered by this survey suggests that the alkali metal template effect documented so thoroughly for copper, manganese, and iron systems may offer an underexplored strategy for directing the nuclearity and topology of future zinc-based cages as well.

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I’ve been trying to think more seriously about the entity that set off the LZ experiment. I was dismissive of the possibility of it being dark matter, perhaps unfairly so. On further reflection, I feel only fairly dismissive.

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First, the formal significance that is claimed is 2.6\u03c3. That seems to be a fair and fairly conservative statement. So it seems something did happen, the question is what. The odds of a 2.6\u03c3 event are about 1 in 200, so a fluke seems unlikely.

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I can think of three generic possibilities:

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I remain of the opinion that the most likely possibility is that is is a fluke. I know I just said that seems unlikely, but “seems” is doing a lot of work here. I think it is fair to say that known explanations are excluded at this confidence, but that leaves a lot of unknowns. Most unknowns turn out to be boring.

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We’ve been down this road many times. The LHC has been running for many years now. It detected the Higgs particle, which was the last missing piece of the Standard Model. That’s a great success. It was hoped that the LHC would also reveal new physics beyond the Standard Model. That it has not done. But there have been many hints during its operation. These appear as glitches (deviations from expectation); there have been multiple glitches that appeared to be significant at the 2.something \u03c3 level. Each time such a glitch was reported, it resulted in a flurry of theoretical activity. Within days, the arxiv preprint server would be inundated with hundreds (literally hundreds) of preprints staking out a claim as to what the latest glitch might be. Each time more data were acquired, the glitch went away. So this seems like another such occasion, making (1), a fluke, seem like the least improbable outcome.

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This is why the [arbitrary] threshold for discovery is set at 5\u03c3 (1 in 3.5 million). Flukes at the 2.something \u03c3 level happen too easily, too often. This phenomenon is not restricted to particle physics. The same thing happens in astronomy all the time. All the gorram time. It’s almost as if nature places more probability in the tail of the distribution for “weird” events than the Gaussian statistics we use say there should be.

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Given this experience, finding a new particle outside the bounds of the Standard Model of Particle Physics seems a lot less likely than 1 in 200. Seems is again doing a lot of work here. How likely 1 in 200 hundred seems depends on your priors. If you’ve been working on this for a long time in the hopes of a positive result, these odds seem pretty good:

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\"I have been waiting for a positive result for, oh, my god, 40 years. So you can bet I'm very, very excited by the LZ results.\"

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If, like me, you’ve already convinced yourself that dark matter cannot explain the kinematic data for galaxies, then it is just another opportunity for the eyes to roll up inside the skull. Obviously we can’t both be right, which is why we do these experiments.

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So what about the other possibilities, (2) and (3)? If the event is real, it is tempting to believe that it is dark matter. That’s what the experiment was designed to detect, after all, so that’s a natural first assumption. But just because you’re looking for something doesn’t guarantee that when you find something you find what you’ve been looking for.

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As I’ve reviewed before, we’re way past the regime of what we expected to find. So it’d be great to find something, but there’s little reason at this point to expect that something to be what we set out to find. So it might be dark matter (2) or it might be something completely different (3). I’ve no way to weigh the odds of those possibilities because they both seem very unlikely.

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For WIMP-like dark matter we at least have some expectations, and this event does not conform to those expectations. It is too high energy. For every event like this one, the detector should have already recorded lots and lots of lower energy events.

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That doesn’t mean it isn’t dark matter (2), just that it isn’t what we expected. But we already missed out on what we were expecting, so maybe? Or maybe it is something unrelated (3), or nothing at all (1). One event does not help override whatever assumption bias we might have had about these possibilities to start.

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To be convincing…

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It occurs to me that I am likely to hold the putative detection of dark matter to a higher standard than other scientists. So what would I find convincing?

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I put the fifth criterion in parentheses because it is a very high bar, and I can conceive of being persuaded to soften it. It is also more advanced tuition than most physicists have contemplated, so let’s start with the more basic requirements.

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At present, none of the above criteria have been met by the new LZ result. There is an old claim to a significant detection by DAMA that satisfies the first criterion but was never independently reproduced, so fails the second criterion. Nobody outside the original experiment takes it seriously now for that reason. It is sobering to realize that while new and exciting, LZ has not yet progressed as far down this list as DAMA.

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Supposing both the first and second requirements are met, then we have a new particle. That is certainly interesting, but by itself would not mean we’ve found dark matter. When we’re in the realm of imagining new particles, there is a vast landscape of possibilities. Only some features in that landscape could qualify as dark matter; there are other possibilities that could exist but have nothing whatever to do with dark matter. So the properties of the particle have to be right, and there is a long list to satisfy.

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From a generic astronomical perspective, the fourth criterion is the most important. We have a pretty good idea of the mass density that dark matter needs to have in the solar neighborhood to explain Galactic kinematics. That’s what these experiments are trying to detect: the dark matter particles in our Galaxy’s dark matter halo that happen to be passing through just now. So for whatever we detect to qualify as the dark matter, there needs to be the right number of particles with the right mass to satisfy astronomical requirements.

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This fourth criterion is a pretty high bar. It does not suffice merely to find a new particle, it’s gotta be the right kind of particle and these particles have to exist with the right density. That can be measured, but it requires lots of detections: enough to work out the properties of the particles and how many are whizzing by. This is part of the disconnect I had in the last post with people complaining about statistical significance: they were focused on the significance of this one event; I was worried about having enough detections to estimate the mass density, or at least see if it is anywhere near the right ballpark. I’m more concerned with the astrophysical relevance of a new particle than with the new particle itself.

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This is a generic problem in the field of dark matter, being as it is at the interface of two different fields. Astronomers need dark matter; we don’t care so much what it is if it performs as required. Particle physicists heard we astronomers needed dark matter, so are more than happy to suggest possibilities, but are more interested in the particle itself than what it does for galaxies. I don’t say what it does for the universe because that’s a lower bar where any dynamically cold, non-baryonic mass will do. The cosmic density needs to be right, but there’s no way to measure the cosmic average, only the local density of the Galactic dark matter halo.

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The highest bar is the fifth criterion, which I think warrants its own post.

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In the media and on social media, there has been a growing number of concerned reports about AI companies that are buying up used books in large quantities and in a rather ominous manner. It is speculated that the large quantities of books acquired in this way are scanned, used for AI training, and irretrievably destroyed in the process. It is often suggested that copyright law is the reason why the books are being destroyed. Can this assumption be substantiated?
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The Destructive Scanning of Books

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The retro-digitization (usually referred to simply as \"digitization\") of books is typically carried out using scanning technology. Modern book scanners are capable of scanning books non-destructively. However, non-destructive scanning of books is a complex process, as irregularities caused by the book's binding must be compensated for during the scanning process.

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In contrast, in so-called destructive scanning, the book's binding is mechanically removed. This turns a book into a loose collection of pages that can be conveniently digitized using a sheet-fed scanner. Once the scanning process is complete, the book pages are then disposed of as waste paper.

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Why Antiquarian Bookstores Are Important for AI Training

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Digital data sources, such as web archives, have long been incorporated into the training of current AI models. The digitization of printed books is now the next stage in data acquisition. According to observers, tech companies are particularly focused on non-fiction books published between the 1970s and the 1990s.

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These books are likely to be of interest for three reasons: First, nonfiction books are valuable for AI training because of their content; they contain factual information that is still largely accurate and is integrated into linguistically sophisticated patterns of argumentation. Second, book titles published before the mid-1990s were generally released exclusively as print editions and have not been digitized since. Third, books from the period in question are still predominantly subject to copyright, which expires only 70 years after the author's death in both Germany and the U.S.

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Obtaining scans of these books from dubious third-party sources would be illegal. Therefore, from a copyright perspective, the purchased print editions of these books are particularly valuable to the companies.

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Technical Reasons for Destructive Scanning

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But why do AI companies accept the destruction of the books during the scanning process?

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First, technical aspects play a significant role in large-scale retro-digitization of books: As explained at the outset, destructive scanning is simpler, faster, and therefore more cost-effective. Although the AI industry appears economically strong, observers interpret the decision to use the most cost-effective digitization method as an indication of cost pressure in this \"highly competitive industry.\"

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Competitive considerations may also play a role, because while the books in question are not particularly old or unique, many of them are nevertheless rarely available on the antiquarian book market due to low print runs and scarcity. Whoever buys them first effectively removes them from the competition's reach, thereby gaining a small advantage for their AI model.

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Destructive Scanning Out of Concern for Copyright?

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A lawsuit between three plaintiff authors and the AI company Anthropic before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (Bartz v. Anthropic) established a legal precedent regarding destructive book scanning in 2025.

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The central question here was whether destructive scanning, on the one hand, and the training of AI models using the content of acquired digitized books, on the other, fall under the so-called \"fair use principle.\"

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What is the fair use principle?
\nThe fair use principle is a legal doctrine found in some common law countries. It permits the use of copyrighted material for purposes of public education or intellectual production without requiring authorization for such use. Classic areas of application for fair use include commentary, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship. Under German copyright law, instead of a general clause like fair use, there are narrow exceptions that permit certain uses (such as quotations, caricatures, parodies, educational and scholarly purposes, reporting on current events, etc.) regardless of the copyright holder's consent.
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The two central questions to be decided by the court must be considered separately:

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First, whether training AI models with the content of purchased digitized books is protected by the fair use doctrine.

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Second, whether destructive scanning constitutes a copyright-relevant copy of a work.

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According to Judge William Alsup, training AI models using the content of purchased digitized books was \"transformative in the truest sense of the word\" and therefore protected by the fair use doctrine. Destructive scanning should be classified as \"replacement scanning,\" in which a printed work is replaced by a digital work. This conversion of a purchased printed book into a digital book was classified by the court as a \"format change\" rather than a copy and is therefore also covered by fair use.

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A Landmark Ruling with Significant Implications

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The rule on format conversion\u2014also known as the \"format-shifting rationale\"\u2014thus promises, according to this landmark ruling, a certain degree of legal certainty for AI companies that destroy the books they have acquired for AI training through destructive scanning. The method that is more efficient from a technical standpoint is therefore also the more legally advisable one.

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However, it is a fallacy to assume that the court's ruling requires AI companies to destroy the digitized books. The lawsuit merely examined the specific digitization process as applied by Anthropic as part of \"Project Panama\"\u2014and classified it as fair use.

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E-books Instead of Print Books?

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If e-books were used for training instead of their printed counterparts, the time-consuming step of scanning\u2014and the associated issues of transportation, storage, and reuse\u2014would be eliminated.

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However, e-books can only become training data for AI models in two ways: the legal way\u2014that is, with the involvement of the rights holders of those e-books\u2014or by training with pirated copies. For AI companies, the legal route entails a significantly higher \"legal/practice/business slog\" (quote from Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei).

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Training AI with pirated copies of e-books is not covered by fair use and thus constitutes a clear copyright infringement, Judge Alsup ruled.

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Fears of 'Fahrenheit 451' Scenarios

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Reports of AI companies purchasing large quantities of books from used bookstores have sparked, in some cases, fierce reactions in the media. The media discussion often references Ray Bradbury's novel *Fahrenheit 451*, a dystopia in which books are banned.

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A closer look at the relevant court ruling in this specific case reveals that there is no legal obligation to destroy retro-digitized books. Economic reasons for choosing the most cost-effective digitization method therefore appear to be the decisive factor when the AI industry employs destructive book scanning. Against the backdrop of the actions taken by major AI companies, calls for open-source AI models are currently growing louder, and with regard to the retro-digitization of books, there are also increasing calls for \"an open-source initiative or a similar nonprofit project.\"

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