Language models like ChatGPT are not neutral. Without our realising it, they can absorb all kinds of bias – for example around gender and ethnicity – which then become increasingly embedded in the model. According to ...

Despite the fact that leaky blood vessels occur in many diseases and can be life-threatening, there is currently no medication available to address this. In a new research project by the UvA MMD TechHub, scientists ...

From traffic congestions to detecting health issues in the city: many social challenges might be better addressed using data collected by companies. Yet much of this information remains out of reach of public ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Gowreesh Mago, PhD Candidate at the Human Aligned Video AI Lab.

What links disturbed sleep and cognitive impairments in depression? What does the language you speak mean to you? And can AI reason in a way that resembles how humans think? These are the subjects of research by Mana ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Tessel Huibregtsen, PhD student at the Amsterdam Center for Computational Cardiology within the Faculty of Medicine.

According to the jury of the Dutch AI Award, Professor Max Welling is the person in the Netherlands who has made the most significant contribution to the AI ecosystem. He received the annual award during a gala in ...

Digital infrastructures play an increasingly important role in geopolitical conflicts. At the same time, the infrastructures of our society themselves are becoming ever more politicised. How can we learn to look ...

Curious about the work of our Data Science Centre Affiliate Members? This month, we introduce Melvin Wevers, Assistant Professor in Digital History at the Faculty of Humanities.

The real impact of AI is not just about groundbreaking technology – it is also about who owns it, what they want to do with it, and who can pay for it, argues Daniel Mügge, Professor of Political Arithmetic. Together ...

Meet Krish Raghav, new connector-in-chief at the UvA Data Science Centre. In this interview, he shares plans to connect people, ideas and projects across faculties and spark collaboration.

Although text-to-image generation is rapidly advancing, these AI models are mostly English-centric. This increases digital inequality for non-English speakers. Researchers at the UvA Faculty of Science have now ...

Although AI models are used worldwide, we don't know exactly how they get to their answers. Ana Lucic, Assistant Professor in AI, creates methods to understand the internals of these models. She also develops machine ...

Steeds meer bedrijven maken gebruik van AI-ondersteunde wervingssystemen om kandidaten vooraf te selecteren of sollicitanten te rangschikken. Hoewel deze instrumenten tijd kunnen besparen, brengen ze ook aanzienlijke ...

An increasing number of companies are using AI-assisted recruiting systems to preselect candidates or rank applicants. While these tools can save time, they also carry significant risks of discrimination. The HORIZON ...