Digital Society

Electrical engineer Ming Cao tackles the ethical, legal, and societal aspects surrounding AI, as head of the ELSA Lab for Technical Industry.

The European Union recently decided that an AI Factory will be established in the former Niemeyer building in Groningen. Ronald Stolk, senior advisor for IT collaborations and programme leader for the digitization of the Nij Begun economic agenda, and Bart Verheij, Professor AI and Argumentation at the UG and digitization figurehead at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, explain how the project came about. They also reflect on the academic backgrounds and social opportunities.

Raffaella Carloni develops artificial limbs, including the bionic leg for which she received the 2024 Ben Feringa Impact Award. ‘I am fascinated by robotics and dream of replicating the remarkable abilities of the human body.'

'People keep promoting the belief that generative AI provides universal tools that are capable of much more,’ says Michael Biehl, Professor of Machine Learning. ‘Sooner or later, the genAI bubble will burst,’ he is certain. But that doesn’t mean all of AI should be thrown out with the bathwater.

Recently, ASML acquired an 11 percent share in Mistral AI, a French company. Ming Cao, Professor of Networks and Robotics at the University of Groningen, explains why a chip-machine factory requires AI.

The new voting system, proposed by minister Uitermark, could jeopardize the fundamental principle of proportional representation, says Davide Grossi, Professor of Collective Decision Making and Computation at the University of Groningen

Four start-up companies founded by FSE scientists have been nominated to participate in the fifth edition of the Academic Start-up Competition.

The US is going to invest a staggering amount of $500 billion in AI. At the University of Groningen, researchers are working on future-proof computing: more energy-efficient hardware and responsible AI that can collaborate with humans.

Andra Cristiana Minculescu studied how an AI-tool could collaborate with a team of medical experts. Today, her project was awarded the Impact Award of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Groningen.