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Separating AI fact from fiction at the AI & Society Conference12 June 2023
Researchers and policymakers are welcome to attend the AI & Society Conference in The Hague on Friday 23 June. The SAILS interdisciplinary research pr...
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How smart cities gain legitimacy and trust30 May 2023A smart city is of no use if its residents don’t trust it. Tanaquil Arduin, Chief Data Officer at the Municipality of The Hague, and Bram Klievink, Pr...
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery23 May 2023There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those mo...
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Open University and Leiden University start Joint Legal Technologies Program11 May 2023The Open University and Leiden University will join forces to offer a (Dutch-taught) Joint Legal Technologies Program for professionals. In doing so, ...
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To what extent is ChatGPT capable of drafting legislation?18 April 2023All sorts of predictions have already been made about the AI system ChatGPT: the programme is going to turn education on its head, make search engines...
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‘Nice tool but what are we supposed to do with it?’What does AI mean for the public sector? 27 March 2023Public agencies are keen to use new technology such as AI to speed up their primary processes. But the internal organisation is often a major stumblin...
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eLaw presented the Horizon Europe BIAS project during the 'Algorithms for Her?' conference24 March 2023Carlotta Rigotti and Dr Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University presented the Horizon Europe BIAS project and its preliminary findings on fairn...
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ChatGPT has left-wing bias in Stemwijzer voting advice application08 March 2023The AI chatbot ChatGPT has a clear left-liberal bias when filling in the Stemwijzer voting advice application. This was discovered by master's student...
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Youth mental health meets big data analytics: Hype or Hope?17 February 2023Depression and anxiety disorders among youth are causing major problems worldwide. The mechanisms involved are still unknown, however. Moji Aghajani –...
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Executive Board column: ChatGPT, threat or opportunity?07 February 2023ChatGPT, the text-generating chatbot, has recently become available for anyone to use. Some people are thrilled, but others less so. In the past few w...
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Reijer Passchier speaks about digital transition at SER31 January 2023What does digitalisation mean for the labour market, the business sector and society in general? Reijer Passchier, Assistant Professor Leiden Law Scho...
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Valerie Frissen on NPO Radio 1 about Microsoft's new VALL-E software19 January 2023Microsoft’s new software VALL-E only has to hear a voice for three seconds to be able to imitate it almost perfectly. You can choose which emotion the...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Robotics and AI in archaeological theory and practice22 December 2022What can Robotics and AI bring to archaeological theory and practice? In return, how can archaeology contribute to the developments in robotics and AI...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...