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Opinion: AI is taking over our jobs – or is the reality more nuanced?Opinion 02 July 2025Following the news that TomTom is cutting 300 jobs due to the use of artificial intelligence (AI), FGGA researchers Friso Selten and Alex Ingrams resp...
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Practising with AI: a chatbot for suicide preventionAI 24 April 2025In the ‘Educatips’ column, Psychology lecturers share their most important insights about teaching. This month, Joanne Mouthaan and Anna Hudson talk a...
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AI recognizes anxious youth based on their brain structure18 March 2024A unique multicenter study, including about 3,500 youth between 10 and 25 years old from across the globe, shows that artificial intelligence - specif...
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Bart Barendregt on Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity07 March 2023Bart Barendregt explains his new Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity in an interview on the Unesco website. The work of this chair falls...
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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros09 January 2023Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’01 April 2022The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Com...
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AI in port and maritime research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam31 May 2021From a ship that has been designed to tell you what maintenance it needs and when, to an intelligent journey planner for global goods transport. The t...
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‘Technology shouldn’t shape our future; we should’20 May 2021Technology holds so much promise – from self-driving cars to enhanced physical performance from smart implants under the skin. But we should not let o...
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LUMC uses artificial intelligence to calculate lung damage in coronavirus patients08 March 2021With the aid of artificial intelligence (AI), care professionals at the LUMC (Leiden University Medical Center) are able to calculate quickly and accu...
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The Hague aims to attract legal tech start-ups25 January 2021In an interview with Jaap van den Herik, Professor emeritus Law and IT, legal magazine Mr. writes that The Hague municipality wants to attract more le...
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Marco Spruit wants to develop a language model to improve healthcare10 December 2020By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...
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Archaeology thanks to computer-based research04 February 2020A mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Scien...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence)13 January 2020Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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Lecture: Aja Huang (Google DeepMind) on AlphaGo22 June 2016How did Google’s computer programme AlphaGo become so good at board game Go that it could defeat the world champion? On June 29, developer Aja Huang w...