#15 Humane Conversation – Synthetic Media & News with Nick Diakopolos, Mathias Felipe de Santos, and Chris Starke
New year, new knowledge! If you are up to date with the news on technology, you may be interested to learn that ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just five…
#16 Humane Conversation – Artificial Intelligence scepticism in news production: the case of South Africa’s mainstream news organisationswith Allen Munoriyarwa and Mathias Felipe de Santos
The proliferation and use of Artificial intelligence (AI) have been met with celebratory acceptance in scholarly discussions and the public sphere. However, in these intellectual debates, scepticism about AI adoption…
#15 Humane Conversation – Synthetic Media & Newswith Nick Diakopolos, Mathias Felipe de Santos, and Chris Starke
In the spirit of the holidays, we are giving you the opportunity to interact and listen to fascinating researchers in our new edition of the Humane AI Conversations! If you…
Postdoctoral Researcher in Causal Inference
Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Natuurw., Wiskunde & Informatica Opleidingsniveau: Gepromoveerd Functie type: Wetenschappelijk Personeel Sluitingsdatum: 31.08.2022 Vacaturenummer: 9461 Are you a machine learning researcher or statistician who is passionate about causality and its applications for…
Postdoctoral researcher Co-designing AI democratisation
Postdoctoral researcher Co-designing AI democratisation Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen Opleidingsniveau: Gepromoveerd Functie type: Wetenschappelijk Personeel Sluitingsdatum: 1 September 2022 Vacaturenummer: 9766 The Faculty of Humanities and the Research Priority Area in Humane AI at…
#14 Humane Conversation – Military AI: experimentation, platforms, and profitwith Marijn Hoijtink, Anneroos Planqué-van Hardeveld, and Ljubiša Metikoš
Against the background of a highly speculative rhetoric around the transformative potential of ‘AI’, military forces worldwide are increasingly experimenting with pattern recognition, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and facial…
AI, Media & Democracy Lab – 3 Postdoctoral Researchers
Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid Opleidingsniveau: Universiteit Functie type: Wetenschappelijk Personeel Sluitingsdatum: 13 June 2022 Vacaturenummer: 9059 Do you want to help us to set up the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking…
The antecedents and consequences of ambivalence about agentic technologieswith Gijs van Houwelingen and Chris Starke
Both in the popular press and in scientific literature, it is often assumed that people are quite wary of agentic (i.e, smart) forms of technology. Yet, at the same time,…
Cabinet allocates more than € 142 million for scientific top research
We are very glad to announce that the University of Amsterdam managed to secure € 21.3 million in research funding from the Gravitation 2022 programme with the project The algorithmic society!…
Workshop – (Un)fairness of Artificial IntelligenceCall for proposals
Socio-technical systems imbued with artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly shape democracy by making important decisions, for example, in public administration (AlgorithmWatch, 2019), media (Thurman et al., 2019), and the legal system …
Responsible Digital Transformations – Call for Proposals 2022
Responsible Digital Transformations (RDT) is one of the four themes in the 2021-2026 strategic plan of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), focusing on technology and ethics of regulation, algorithms, systems…
RPA Human(e)AI Statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The members of the RPA Human(e)AI of the University of Amsterdam stand strongly by Ukraine. We condemn the invasion undertaken by president Putin. Our sincerest thoughts go to all Ukrainians…
#11 Humane Conversation – Imagining the future, performing the state – Germany’s national AI strategywith Jens Hälterlein and Ljubiša Metikoš
In the past few years, many governments and supranational organisations published strategy papers in which they present their visions of the future development, application and regulation of AI. Nations states…
Getting the AI Regulation Right: a Research Agendawith Natali Helberger
The protection of fundamental rights and the human-centric, ethical and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is a central ambition of the European AI strategy, with no lesser goal…
AI Democratisation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) already has a transformative impact on our societies. There is more potential to improve people’s everyday lives, culturally, socially and economically. This potential stands and falls with…
#11 Humane Conversation – Imagining the future, performing the state – Germany’s national AI strategywith Jens Hälterlein and Ljubiša Metikoš
In the past few years, many governments and supranational organisations published strategy papers in which they present their visions of the future development, application and regulation of AI. Nations states…
Postdoctoral Researcher on AI and Humanities
Faculty/Services: Faculty of Humanities Educational level: Promoted Function type: Academic Staff Closing date: 31 March 2022 Vacancy number: 8358 The Research Priority Area in Humane AI at the University of Amsterdam currently has a…
#10 Humane Conversation – Stereotypes in Language & Computational Language Modelswith Katrin Schulz, Robert van Rooij, Anthi Solaki
In these two interdisciplinary projects, Katrin Schulz - professor of logic at the department of philosophy of Universiteit van Amsterdam - and Robert van Rooij - director of the Institute…
#10 Humane Conversation – Stereotypes in Language & Computational Language Modelswith Katrin Schulz, Robert van Rooij, Anthi Solaki
In these two interdisciplinary projects, Katrin Schulz - professor of logic at the department of philosophy of Universiteit van Amsterdam - and Robert van Rooij - director of the Institute…
AI, Media & Democracy Lab receives more than 2 million euros for human-oriented AI research
The AI, Media & Democracy Lab - a collaboration between the UvA (project leader), the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer…
Lab Manager AI, Media & Democracy Lab 2022Faculty of Law - Department of Jurisprudence
Publication date 17 December 2021 Closing date 31 January 2022 Level of education HBO/Bachelor's degree Hours 32 to 38 hours per week Salary indication €2,836 to €4,474 gross per month…
Accelerate Programme 2022UvA Data Science Center Calls 2022
The Universiteit van Amsterdam Data Science Center is looking for new colleagues for the 2022 Accelerate Programme! Via the call, an application can be sent for matching the hiring of…
#9 Humane Conversations – “How to tame an evil AI?”with Iyad Rahwan
In this talk, using only cartoons illustrated by Iyad Rahwan, the director of the Center for Humans and Machines Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, we will explore…
#8 Humane Conversations – “Developing AI for Healthcare”with Ivana Išgum and Hannah van Kolfschooten
#8 Humane Conversations – “Developing AI for Healthcare”with Ivana Išgum
AI holds a promise to revolutionize healthcare. It has the potential to improve the quality of care by improving diagnosis and prognosis, reducing growing healthcare costs through automation, and making…
PhD Candidate Digital Justice in Humane AIFaculty of Law - Department of Jurisprudence
Publication date 13 July 2021 Closing date 31 August 2021 Level of education Master's degree Hours 38 hours per week Salary indication €2,395 to €2,920 gross per month Vacancy number…
qurAI Group
QurAI is an interfaculty group embedded in the Faculties of Medicine (Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics) and Science (Institute of Informatics) of the University of Amsterdam. Our mission is…
Video & Image Sense Lab
THE VIS Lab makes sense of video and images with artificial and human intelligence. The lab studies computer vision, deep learning and cognitive science. We are based at the…
2nd IViR “Science Fiction & Information Law” short story competition
This is the second call for short stories for the IViR Science Fiction & Information Law story competition. From the many exciting contributions to our first call it became clear…
Lunch at ICAI: AI & the Public Sector in NLorganised by ICAI
This Lunch at ICAI session is focused on AI technology in the public sector. The Cultural AI lab and the Civic AI lab each present their work and discuss challenges…
AI for Oncology Lab
The AI for Oncology lab is a collaboration between the Netherlands Cancer Institute and the University of Amsterdam. Both institutes join forces in the development of AI algorithms to…
INDE Lab
The INtelligent Data Engineering Lab is part of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. It investigates intelligent systems that support people in their work with data and…
EAISI – TU Eindhoven
The Eindhoven AI Systems Institute brings together all AI activities of the TU/e. Top researchers from various research groups work together to create new and exciting AI applications with a…
ELISE
ELISE is a network of artificial intelligence research hubs. Based on the highest level research, it spreads its knowledge and methods in academia, industry and society. The network invites all…
SignLab Amsterdam
SignLab Amsterdam is a cross-faculty research lab at the University of Amsterdam, founded in 2020. It brings together a long tradition of sign linguistics in Amsterdam, starting with the pioneering…
Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. Founded in 1946, CWI is part of the Institutes Organisation of NWO,…
AI & Society Roundtableorganised by Humane AI Net
The RPA Human(e) AI would like to bring your attention to the following event, organised by Humane AI Net: Background A collective intelligence exercise towards shaping the research questions…
Postdoctoral Researcher at University Research Priority Area – Humane AI and JusticeCall for Applications
Publication date: 4 June 2021 Closing date 27 June 2021 Level of education University Hours 38 hours per week Salary indication €3,746 to €5,127 gross per month Vacancy number 21-439…
The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making
The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making refers to the way in which algorithms, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) affect markets and society, changing democratic processes, commercial value chains, public administration, and…
Welcome to our new Postdoc researchers!
This month we welcomed two new Postdoc Researchers who joined us following the RPA Human(e) AI Call 'Responsible AI from a SSH perspective'. Meet Anthi Solaki and Christopher Starke! Anthi…
Humane Conversations #7with Max Welling, Beate Rössler and Raquel Fernández
The role of artificial intelligence is gaining increasing prominence across a myriad of sectors in our society. In fields such as healthcare, security, agriculture, media and more, AI applications have…
ICML Workshop Algorithmic Recourse
The increasing popularity of machine learning (ML) models in various high-stakes domains such as finance, criminal justice and healthcare has resulted in a call for greater transparency into the mechanisms…
PEPTalk – The problem of digital predictabilityOn prediction, predictability and manipulation
Predictability is central to the digital society: it enables companies to send us the right advertisements and make us buy the things we really, predictably, want. This form of predictability…
Universities & Big TechOnline via Zoom
Spurred by the pandemic, universities around the globe have been forced to move their teaching and research online. Consequently, academia has become even more dependent on digital services provided by…
New Human(e) AI Projects 2021-2022!
After the conclusion of its third yearly call for seed-funding, the RPA Human(e) AI is happy to announce the newly awarded projects. The two teams will join a growing community…
AI in Educationby Amsterdam Data Science
Amsterdam Data Science (ADS) in collaboration with the Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence (CoE AAI) are hosting a webinar on AI in Education (AIED). Register here
Bits of Biasby Things to Come
This event is part of the Science Program Things to Come of Imagine Film Festival 2021. In this program, future visions and science fiction are compared to scientific and societal…
First event of the AI, Media and Democracy Lab
The Amsterdam AI, Media & Democracy Lab organized its first event at the Mozilla Festival (MozFest), on March 15, 2021. Together with the City of Amsterdam and a spectacular list…
Claes de Vreese becomes fifth university professor of AI
Professor Claes de Vreese, Chair of the RPA Human(e) AI, has been appointed university professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society by the Executive Board of the UvA. This appointment takes…
De gevaren van filter bubbelsJustus, Ron, Cato & Sarah
Een steeds groter deel van ons leven speelt online af en het internet is (bijna) niet meer weg te denken. Overal om ons heen wordt gebruik gemaakt van AI-technieken, of…
Robotdieren tegen de eenzaamheidGido van der Spruijt, Sacha van de Hoef, Joëlle Goevaers
Eenzaamheid, we hebben er allemaal wel eens last van, zeker nu ons land in de greep is van COVID-19. Een bevolkingsgroep die hier erg onder lijdt zijn de ouderen. Zij…
Protest tegen gezichtsherkenning: 4 tips om gezichtsherkenningssystemen te misleidenIulia ter Veer, Maaike van der Vegt, Pien van Eerden en Vera Adinde
Gezichtsherkenningssystemen worden steeds vaker ingezet om criminelen mee op te sporen. In China gaat het zelfs een stapje verder. Daar hangen naar schatting 176 miljoen CCTV camera’s op openbare plekken.…
Wedstrijdje hersentumor zoeken: Nep hersenscans maken met Generative Adverserial NetworksSteven, Joost, Puck & Pepijn
In 2021 zullen ongeveer 85.000 mensen gediagnosticeerd worden met een hersentumor. Ongeveer de helft van die mensen zal 8 maanden na deze diagnostisering overleden zijn. Het is dus van groot…
AI muziek, een hoopvolle toekomst?Félinn Elenbaas, Titus van Gent, Estel Koole, Jacomijn Prins
Probeer eens in je dagelijks leven om je heen te kijken en iets te vinden dat nog niet is beïnvloed door computers. Kunstmatige intelligentie (AI), machines die menselijke intelligentie nabootsen,…
AI Media & Democracy Lab
How will AI and digital technologies transform democracy and the media? UvA, HvA and CWI launch AI Media & Democracy Lab How will AI change media? What new opportunities can…
New Article – Small Data Big Challenges
A new article by Arianna Betti, project leader at the RPA Human(e) AI, and other researchers was presented during the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), within the…
New Study on AI Regulation and Trade Law
The German consumer organisation VZBV released this week a study prepared by Kristina Irion from the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information Law (IViR). The study joins-up three EU policy…
Humane Conversations – Eerlijke Algoritmen
"There is a strong societal call to ensure that AI-based algorithms are designed in a responsible way. In particular, bias and discrimination should be avoided whenever possible. Recently, CBS (Statistics…
Postdoctoral Researcher at the RPA Human(e) AI in Humane AI and Justice
Publication date: 4 June 2021 Closing date 27 June 2021 Level of education University Hours 38 hours per week Salary indication €3,746 to €5,127 gross per month Vacancy number 21-439 Are…
Natali Helberger is also “UvA’er van het jaar”
Folia interviewed Natali Helberger for its article ”UvA’er of the Year”. In the interview, Natali talked about the corona app, leading a research team during a pandemic and working…
Humane Conversations – Sennay Ghebreab and Hinda Haned
"The AI community has been focusing on developing fixes for harmful bias and discrimination, through so-called ‘debiasing algorithms’ that either try to fix data for known or expected biases, or…
Humane Conversations – Marieke van Erp
"Biases in data can be both explicit and implicit. A simple two-word phrase can carry strong contestations, and entire research fields, such as post-colonial studies, are devoted to them. However,…
Kick-off Civic AI-Lab
The University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit, the City of Amsterdam and the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations will hold a festive online kick-off event for the new…
#2 Humane Conversations – Beate Rössler"A" as in Autonomy and "I" as in "SocIal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tknPpiO4loM On 13 October we launched our first of a series of webinars called "Humane Conversations". The initiative seeks to connect researchers across humanities, social sciences and computer…
Natali Helberger on the PERSONEWS project
The PERSONEWS project, funded by the European Research Council, is one of the first to examine, in depth, the impact of algorithmic news recommendations for both users and news media…
Hybrid Intelligence Centre
Hybrid Intelligence (HI) is the combination of human and machine intelligence, expanding human intellect instead of replacing it. HI takes human expertise and intentionality into account when making meaningful decisions…
Iris van Domselaar speaks at International Legal Protection Congress
Legal Protection International hosted it's 30th annual international legal protection congress on 15 & 16 October. This congress raises the question whether the legal sector, in particular the in-house lawyers…
AI & Content ModerationHIIG
Public pressure on platform companies to more soundly monitor the content on their sites is constantly increasing. To address this, platforms are turning to algorithmic content moderation systems. These systems…
RPA Human(e) AI researchers win two NWO VENI grants
[caption id="attachment_3060" align="alignleft" width="516"] João and Jef celebrating in style with due respect of social distance[/caption] We are happy to announce that two RPA researchers Jef Ausloos and João Pedro…
Cultural-AI Lab
The lab accelerates excellent research on the intersection of humanities and artificial intelligence. Research areas have an equal focus on “humanities to improve AI research” as well as “AI…
Human(e) AI introduced to Minister van Engelshoven
Joanna Strycharz and Claes de Vreese presented the RPA Human(e) AI to the Minister of Education during her work visit in October to the UvA which was devoted almost entirely…
Launch PEPTPlatform for Ethics and Politics of Technology
Smart cities, robotics, artificial intelligence, medical technologies, the energy transition, sustainable technologies and surveillance capitalism: new technologies affect every part of society and our daily lives, raising new ethical…
Humane Conversations – Beate Rössler"A" as in Autonomy and "I" as in "SocIal"
"Both the computer science and law disciplines try to define ideal qualities of automated decision systems. In these contexts, concepts, such as autonomy, authenticity, agency, or privacy - both individual…
QUVA Lab
By completing a jig-saw-puzzle during the official opening on September 15, Senior Vice President Nagraj Kashyap and President Dymph van den Boom marked the start of the new public-private partnership…
AI4EU Cafe’AI and Legal Personality
The Speaker is: Klaus Heine (Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam) Abstract: AI’s mimic human like decisions, but they are no humans.…
#1 Humane ConversationsWhat's happening in AI research and what does it mean for Humane AI?
On 13 October we launched our first of a series of webinars called "Humane Conversations". The initiative seeks to connect researchers across humanities, social sciences and computer scientists to discuss…
Amsterdam coalition publishes special AI-edition of New Scientist
To highlight the importance of AI to a broader public, the Amsterdam coalition ‘AI technology for people’ has published a special AI edition in the October issue of the popular…
Tobias Blanke on AI and HumanitiesNew intelligence with eye for small details
Algorithms are playing a growing role in our life. How should we deal with that? According to Tobias Blanke (University Professor in Humanities and AI), it is essential for…
UvA Inclusive AI invites Shakir Mohamed (GoogleDeepMind) for a virtual talk and discussion
The UvA Inclusive AI invites everybody that is studying, teaching, and researching AI at the University of Amsterdam to join a virtual talk and discussion with Shakir Mohamed (Google…
Radboud AI
Radboud AI is a campus-wide initiative connecting all activities on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science within Radboud University and Radboud UMC. Radboud AI strives for the development of human-centered AI…
LAB 42 Live Kick-off
After a long period of planning, the time has finally come: the construction of Lab42 has started at Science Park. Lab42 will become a unique science building where education,…
History of AI at the UvA – ILLC Blog
A new post published on the ILLC Blog by Iris Proff recounts the origins of AI research at the University of Amsterdam. Since its very beginning, AI has been a…
Humane Conversations – Max Welling
We are very pleased to invite you to this launch event of Human(e) Conversations. Homeworking and the zoomification of research is making chance encounters and discovering new colleagues with shared research interests much more…
Amsterdam Time Machine
The Amsterdam Time Machine (ATM) is a public research resource on the history of Amsterdam. It is currently coordinated by the CREATE research program at the University of Amsterdam and…
4D Research LAB
The 4D Research Lab (4DRL) serves scholars who conduct research into the material past1 in the faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. It provides a wide range of…
CREATECreative Amsterdam: An E-Humanities Perspective
CREATE is short for Creative Amsterdam: An E-Humanities Perspective, a research programme established in 2014. We are based at the department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Our project integrates…
Music Cognition Group
The Music Cognition Group (MCG) is part of the Department of Musicology, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), and Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC) Center of the University…
Dialogue Modelling Group
The Dialogue Modelling Group carries out research at the interface of computational linguistics, cognitive modelling and artificial intelligence. Its aim is to understand how we use language to communicate…
Amsterdam Dynamics Group
We live in a world of facts and truth, and traditionally, logic has helped us steer a course attuned to that grand independent reality. But logic is also about…
Statistical Language Processing and Learning Lab
Research at the Statistical Language Processing and Learning Lab concentrates on statistical models for structured language processing with application to machine translation, paraphrasing, semantic and morpho-syntactic parsing, and statistical learning…
Causal Inference Lab
Causality plays a major role in cognition. Combining empirical and formal methods, the members of the Causal Inference Lab study the role causality plays in the interpretation of…
Cognition, Language and Computation Lab
Language is extremely complex, extremely useful, found in all human populations and fundamentally different from any system of communication in other animals. Although there is a recognizable language processing network…