2,114 search results for “kunstmatige intelligence” in the Public website
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Creating space for dignity and empathy: examining algorithms in government decisions
Automated government decisions can be cost-effective. But using algorithms also makes understanding the reasons behind decisions particularly complicated. Dr Melanie Fink, Assistant Professor at Leiden Law School, has received a Veni grant to fund her research into this.
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LUC anniversary: 15 inspiring examples of local impact
In 2025, Leiden University College (LUC) celebrates its 15th anniversary with the theme 'Global challenges, local impact'. To kick off this anniversary year, we have shared fifteen stories over the past few weeks showcasing how LUC students, researchers, and alumni contribute to societal challenges…
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Five Leiden contributions to NWO Perspectief projects
Five consortia within the Perspectief programme that include Leiden researchers have received funding to start their research projects. These projects focus on (further) developing technological innovations, with societal and economic impact at their core.
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Extra funding for five experimental and innovative research projects
Five Leiden research projects in history, law and AI have received SSH Open Competition M 2024 funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The researchers have up to five years to work on a promising idea.
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Humans and animals: how is their relationship defined?
Speakers from all over the world offered their interesting views on the relationship between humans and animals during the LUCAS Graduate Conference, based around the central theme ‘Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation’.
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Electric car batteries can help drive the clean electricity transition
As early as 2030, batteries in electric vehicles could fully meet the need for short-term electricity storage around the world. By connecting them to the power grid they can provide their stored energy, improving energy security and enabling renewable technologies in cleaning the grid.
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PhD candidate reveals link between North Korea and southern Africa
North Korea is generally thought to be an isolated country. But, according to PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog from Leiden’s African Studies Centre, the opposite is in fact the case. North Korea actually has strong alliances with countries in southern Africa. Van der Hoog is trying to shed more light…
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MIRD Gala & Reconnect 2025: The future of international relations
On 18 January 2025, the Annual Reconnect & Gala of the Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) celebrated over 20 years of bringing together current MIRD students, alumni, and faculty members. This year’s discussions focused on the theme: 'The Future of IR: Digital Innovation, Climate…
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FactRank: new tool brings automatic fact-checking a step closer
FactRank is a new online tool that automatically detects ‘checkable’ claims made by politicians in parliamentary debates or tweets, and therefore enables fact-checkers to work much faster. Alexander Pleijter, a researcher and lecturer in Journalism and New Media, helped develop FactRank.
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Alumna Minke Lok: ‘Millions of people hear my work’
Alumna Minke Lok (26) programmes many announcements in various languages at almost all major airports in Europe, including at Schiphol. ‘Millions of people around the world hear what I create.’
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'There's nothing more we can do for you' - New publication on harmful communication in oncology
PhD student Janine Westendorp and her colleagues conducted literature research on what patients with cancer and their loved ones perceive as harmful communication from healthcare providers. The results were published in the journal Psycho-Oncology and are released as a poster to distribute to healthcare…
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‘I put my name down for the Humanities Career Event to get a better idea of what I want.’
Many students find their job search really stressful – what will they end up doing after they graduate? What are their career options, their employment opportunities?
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Gaming your way through a PhD: 'Studying games is not just cool, it's important'
Giulio Barbero and Matthias Müller-Brockhausen did their PhD research at the Leiden University Game Research Lab.
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Professor of Urology Maxime Kummeling: ‘The human dimension should guide us’
As technology transforms healthcare and services come under mounting pressure, one question remains the same: Will the advice or treatment offered help patients lead the lives they want to live? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Maxime Kummeling stresses the importance of quality.
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Pieter Slaman moved by the LUS Education Prize: ‘The most beautiful prize there is’
Interview with Pieter Slaman who received the LUS Education Prize. What makes the award so special to him and does he already know how he will use his prize money?
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CANCELLED: SAILS Symposium Digital Sovereignty 10 Oct
Conference
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Generative AI and Embodied Cognition
Conference, workshop
- "Towards an Anthropology of AI in Islam" Public lecture by Bart Barendregt
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Trial college Law and Digital Technologies (Advanced LL.M.)
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Workshop Generative AI & Embodied Cognition
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Human dignity, autonomy and accountability
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Barrie Sander
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Ahmed Mafouz
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Information Disorder - Public Lecture by Eliot Higgins
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SAILS AI Book Club Cancelled
Lecture
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Mathematics in the age of automated proofs
Conference
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Resilience after terrorist attacks
Book launch and panel
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant from the NWO. A grant of up to 250,000 euros will give them the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas over…
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Veni grants for 22 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 22 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Global Geopolitics with Trump: Two Months In
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Rita Pucci
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Alina Karakanta
Lecture
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Marietje Schaake - Hans Franken Lecture
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Can AI Save the Amazon? The Politics of AI Environmentalism in Colombia
EDGES Talk
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Spring Lecture Series: Intersectional Bias: How AI and Social Media Impact Bias, Exclusion, Discrimination, and Power Inequalities
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Bas Haring
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Franco Donati
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LED3 Lecture: Drug discovery - The use of data and algorithms in discovery
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To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Joost Visser
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Bas Haring
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Tanja Alderliesten
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LUCIP Colloquium "Artificial Consciousness and the Conditionality of Moral Agency: An Abhidhamma Perspective"
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia
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Humanities Career Event 2025
Conference
- Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Blog Post | Foreign Ministries’ Responses to Growing Complexity, and How to Study Them
Christian Lequesne introduces the upcoming special issue on Ministries of Foreign Affairs in this blog post.
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Success with NWO for social and behavioural scientists
Ten Leiden social and behavioural scientists have successfully applied for the NWO Open Competition. With this Open Competition, NWO gives researchers the chance to start small, high-risk, innovative or promising research projects.