AI at the UvA

You can sign the open letter here "We, the undersigned, express our concern about our university’s reliance on services from Big Tech companies (particularly Microsoft, Google, Amazon) for our research,…

The premise of this talk is that we need to think about artificial intelligence as a complex ecosystem. Doing so requires navigating thorny disputes in the theoretical humanities and social…

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!…

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 (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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

  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…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

  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…

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…

    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…

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…

    The Digital Communication Methods Lab is an initiative of the RPA Communication, focusing on innovative research and bringing together existing and new projects with digital communication methods as…

The Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab) conducts research in the area of large scale modelling of complex data sources. This includes the development of new methods for probabilistic graphical models…

The Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group is part of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. Its research is aimed at intelligent information access, especially in the…

  Information, Communication & the Data Society is an interdisciplinary research initiative into the way AI and algorithms affect the role, impact and regulation of information and communication in the…

  The Civic Artificial Intelligence Lab (CAIL) is a collaboration between City of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and University of Amsterdam (UvA). Civic AI Lab focuses on the application…

The AI4SCIENCE Lab is fashioned after the successful Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) labs, which connect research institutes with industry or government in the area of artificial intelligence. The…