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A UvA team is using AI to search for molecules that boost dopamine production in brain cells, as a possible alternative to levodopa.

As the first UvA scientist to receive the highest Dutch award for knowledge utilization, De Vreese gets 1.5 million euros for research and societal impact.

HvA and partners are developing AI that supports volunteers and neighborhood professionals in turning health measurements into concrete steps.

Looking back at Zorg2040: who benefits from AI in healthcare, and who risks being left behind?

AI scientist Linlin Cheng of VU Amsterdam shows that social robots can estimate where someone’s attention lies without expensive eye trackers.

A consortium led by the UvA is developing inclusive AI tools with residents and employees to prevent and detect cardiovascular disease.

Researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute show that flawed training data, not the AI models themselves, held back the prediction of T-cell responses.

A UvA project tests whether structured pushback from AI improves the quality of scientific knowledge.

D66 Amsterdam is calling for a city where at least 100,000 residents can use AI safely and competently by 2030.

In The Techtonic Shift, Paul Verhagen examines how Big Tech is reshaping global power relations.

UvA research on 21 language models shows AI systems largely agree on rewarding good behaviour, but diverge sharply in how they judge someone with a bad reputation, with consequences for cooperation.

A European coalition of scientists and companies, with CWI among the initiators, handed a new research agenda to the European Commission to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty.