Workshop "Exploring AI tools for the academic writing process"

The emergence of large language models (e.g. ChatGTP) and similar AI-supported tools has both positive and negative effects. In an internal workshop, members of Die Junge Akademie want to explore the possibilities of AI in the academic writing process and familiarise themselves with the challenges and risks. In addition, the aim is to work out together how teaching methods may need to be adapted to meet new challenges. The workshop will be held 5 September 2024 in Stuttgart.

Workshop "Interdisciplinary Conversations on the Fairness, Explainability and Uncertainty of AI“

From 19 - 20 September, the members of the RG Artificial Intelligence will meet for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the chances and limits of AI and its applications. Different disciplines bring different perspectives to the table and similar sounding concepts do not necessarily mean the same. Moreover, even if concepts are the same across disciplines, different fields might focus on distinct aspects. The workshop “Interdisciplinary Conversations on the Fairness, Explainability and Uncertainty of AI” tries to bridge these gaps and brings researchers from different disciplines in conversation about these three major concepts of current research on AI.

Workshop “Artificial Intelligence in Biobanking”

From 29 - 30 July 2022, the Artificial Intelligence research group is organising the workshop "Artificial Intelligence in Biobanking" in Berlin. The aim is to bring biobanking and artificial intelligence closer together and to shed light on its further implications. The focus will be on aspects such as IT processes, organisational workflows or quality management measures, as well as on broader issues of ethical, legal and social significance.

11.09.2023

The RG Artificial Intelligence has invited Ksenia Keplinger for a digital fireside talk on the topic of "DEI and AI: Friend or foe?". Keplinger leads the independent research group "Organizational Leadership & Diversity" at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, where she employs qualitative and quantitative research methods to study how leadership roles are shaped in the AI era. With the RG Artificial Intelligence she speaks about her research on the challenges and potentials of AI use for diversity and inclusion in organisations.

26.01.2022

Together with the research group Transfer of Innovation in Academia, RG Artificial Intelligence hosted a fireside evening with astrophysicist and Erium founder Theo Steininger. The members of Die Junge Akademie talked to him about his scientific and entrepreneurial path. Among other things, Theo Steininger addressed technical, social and legal points in the field of artificial intelligence.

23.03.2022

At this fireside talk with the Artificial Intelligence research group, the guest was Die Junge Akademie alumna Ulrike von Luxburg. Von Luxburg is a professor of computer science at the University of Tübingen and a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She works on the theoretical foundations of machine learning and is also interested in the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) research on future society. The members of the RG talked to Ulrike von Luxburg about her work and the potentials and challenges of AI applications for society and science. They were also interested in what experiences she has had as a scientist in the public discussion about the social significance of AI.

Understanding blood-brain dynamics with statistical learning

The brain serves only as a cooling system for the blood - at least that's what Aristotle believed. Even though medicine and neuroscience have made some progress since then, the dynamics between neuronal activity and the fluctuations of various messenger substances and metabolic products in the blood are still insufficiently understood. The reason for this is, among other things, the complexity and effort of a parallel measurement of brain and blood parameters over several hours, and furthermore the existence of manifold interactions and feedback loops between these parameters, which quickly push classical statistical analysis methods to their limits.

Workshop „AI and University“

On 10 and 11 January 2020, the RG Artificial Intelligence is organising its first workshop in Frankfurt am Main entitled "AI and University". On the first day, the workshop will deal with the topic "AI research despite basic data protection regulations". On the second day, the focus will be on "Using AIs in Education" (so-called Learning Analytics).