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In September 2023, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) took a significant step in the educational landscape with the launch of their joint AI Taskforce. A dynamic group of eight experts from both universities join forces: not only to explore the challenges, but also the unprecedented possibilities of artificial intelligence within higher education.

It has been possible for years: operating computers with your voice instead of your hands. Apple, Google and Amazon have developed and marketed their own smart assistant and accompanying speaker in recent years. Now that the artificial intelligence (AI) required for this is improving, two startups are bringing new gadgets to the market that focus on voice control. Can they provide a breakthrough?

Hot off the press: Brand new edition of HvA Impact Magazine!

The nine leading partners of Amsterdam AI recently signed a new agreement, strengthening their collaboration. With the partners' contributions, financial support is now coming in, focusing on hiring professionals for communication, strategy, and other crucial functions. This will take the collaboration to the next level and enable groundbreaking AI innovations to be realised, with human-centred and socially responsible AI at its core.

Amsterdam AI proudly announces the recent awarding of the ELSA Label to the AI for Health Equity Lab by the Dutch AI Coalition (NL AIC). The ELSA label (Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects) closely matches Amsterdam AI’s commitment to responsible and people-centered AI. 

She is known as the digital czar of Europe: European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. She is hastening the introduction of the new law that should restrict artificial intelligence. The first law in the world that supervises Artificial Intelligence (AI).

To avoid losing the battle for generative AI to dominant players such as America and China, the Netherlands must invest like a hare in an AI infrastructure. For our safety and economic security, argue concerned scientists from three universities.

On Thursday, 18 January 2024, the government was the first EU member state to present its vision for generative AI, highlighting the importance of an active government mindful of both the opportunities and threats of AI as a systems technology.

It seems like science fiction: on the 'digital twin' of a patient with a stroke or brain haemorrhage, testing what the best treatment is for this patient. For now, it is still future music.