Artificial intelligence

12. December 2024

Rudolphina Experts: Health equity and artificial intelligence

Is health a matter of negotiation?

In this expert article, Jörg Menche from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine at the University of Vienna sheds light on the challenges and opportunities in dealing with rare diseases. He explains how his research also provides new insights into more common diseases, and shows the role of technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality in making health fairer.

10. October 2024

Rudolphina Experts: Philosophy of Technology

Healing a world in crisis: AI as a double-edged sword

Can we rely on technology to save the planet? Tackling this issue requires a multidisciplinary approach. International scholars agree that environmental and social impacts must be assessed across all stages of AI development, as our experts explain in this guest article.

3. July 2024

Guest article by

Krzysztof Janowicz

Rudolphina Experts: AI in Spatial Data Science

GeoAI: Is intelligence spatial?

Large language models or lying language models? What does truth mean in the context of AI? Guest writer Krzysztof Janowicz, Professor of Cartography and Geoinformation Science at University of Vienna, explains why the data AI feeds on will always be deeply geographical, cultural, contradictory. GeoAI is needed to help navigate the spatiotemporal context of knowledge.

13. June 2024

Artificial intelligence and law

"We should not be afraid of AI"

The public discourse fails to address the potential benefits of artificial intelligence, finds IT law expert Nikolaus Forgó. Can AI even give us back autonomy? As uncertain as the future with AI may be, law graduates will be in higher demand than ever before.

6. June 2024

Tackling AI bias

Can AI be fair?

AI has a problem with gender-sensitive language, prefers white men and spreads misinformation – because it has learned from us. We asked a computer linguist, an AI ethicist and a technology researcher from the University of Vienna: How can we make AI more equitable?

4. June 2024

How AI is changing science

Artificial intelligence: The researcher ex machina

Will artificial intelligence revolutionise science? From the universe in the supercomputer to old travelogues from the Orient: Four researchers from the University of Vienna tell us how they use AI and where its limits currently lie.

22. May 2024

Guest article by

Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

Rudolphina Experts: Brain-AI interfaces

How can AI help persons with speech disabilities?

AI technologies open up new ways of communication for people with speech impairments, but also raise ethical concerns. Neuroinformatics specialist Moritz Grosse-Wentrup offers an insight into a highly topical research area.

7. May 2024

The future with AI

How to avoid AI Catastrophic Risks

Canadian computer scientist and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is one of the world's foremost experts in AI and deep learning. On 7 May he spoke at the University of Vienna about potential catastrophic scenarios from advanced AI systems and how to prevent them. We had the opportunity to ask him a few questions beforehand.

25. April 2024

Guest article by

Iris Eisenberger

Rudolphina Experts: AI Policies

Regulating AI: Are we on the right track?

The regulation of artificial intelligence comes with both challenges and opportunities at the interface between technological progress and social values. A perspective by legal scholar Iris Eisenberger.

4. April 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Moraliser, plagiarism engine, miracle machine: How well do we know AI?

The breakneck speed at which artificial intelligence is developing makes it difficult to predict where it is heading. Our researchers say: Instead of getting ever bigger and faster, we should now take the time to really understand AI.

28. March 2024

Rudolphina Reads

"Why AI Undermines Democracy" by Mark Coeckelbergh

How do we keep AI from disrupting the foundations of democracy? Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, explores this question in his latest book. He argues that there is no need for doom-thinking and outlines possible solutions for richer participation in a functioning democracy.

22. February 2024

Water management

AI detects river pollution

Various human activities affect the quality of our lakes, rivers, groundwater, and oceans. When harmful chemicals enter our waters, it is crucial that these are identified as soon as possible. This is at the core of the "SWAIN" project, which is taking a totally new approach using artificial intelligence.

20. September 2023

AI ethics

Why we need global governance frameworks for artificial intelligence

An interdisciplinary body of experts, including three academics affiliated with the University of Vienna, supports Austria in the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Rudolphina asked them why AI governance requires a global approach and which possibilities and risks this entails.

21. December 2022

Discriminating algorithms

"Nothing on the Internet is neutral"

Sandra Wachter is one of the leading researchers in the field of Internet and artificial intelligence. In our interview, the alumna of Law, who has been recently appointed Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, explains why it is so important to take a look behind the decisions of algorithms.

5. May 2021

Presenting... Physicist Valeria Saggio

Using quantum physics for machine learning

Valeria Saggio, doctoral candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, investigates the bridge between quantum physics and artificial intelligence. Her team was able to demonstrate that the learning time of agents can be reduced when quantum physics is used in the machine learning protocol.