SAILS is a universitywide initiative aimed at facilitating collaboration across disciplines on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

SAILS organises different types of events, such as the bi-weekly Lunch Time Seminar, the Florence Nightingale Colloquium and occasional symposiums and workshops. On this page you will find an overview of past events, together with their recordings.

The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to strengthen fundamental AI research. The Leiden interdisciplinary research programme SAILS is part of ROBUST.

Research and education are two of the pillars the SAILS programme is built and which we are keen to expand on. Communication of the research to researchers, companies and other societal partners is another key element.

A mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Science @ Archaeology' took place in which the Data Science Research Programme (DSRP), SAILS and the Faculty of Archaeology joined forces.

Prestigieus grant awarded to SAILS researchers!

A selection of staff members involved in SAILS.

How does it feel to be spied on by robots? Did you know that they too discriminate? Our entanglement with technology makes life easier, but there’s a downside too. Artists and researchers will show all aspects of this in the SAILS online talk show The Future of AI is Human. Join in on Tuesday 15 December from 16.30.

It is a familiar phenomenon: you ask the assistant on your phone to call your mother, but it calls a friend instead. Tom Kouwenhoven, PhD student in the SAILS programme, investigates how humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can better communicate with each other, so that these kinds of situations will no longer occur in the future.