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The Amsterdam Economic Board’s website recently published an article about the Zorg2025 meeting, where experts discussed AI's role in healthcare, its potential, and the ethical challenges it brings to the field.

This article, sourced from ai4dem.nl, covers insights shared by Professor Natali Helberger and Dr. Hannes Cools during the Digital Growth Summit in Brussels, organized by Twipe. The summit focused on the impact of Generative AI on the news industry. Helberger and Cools share three key lessons from the Future Scenario Writing Workshop, which explored the future landscape of the news sector.

At the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam's new Smart Health and Vitality Lab, students practice healthcare skills in a fully virtual environment.

Google has made its watermark tool SynthID, designed to identify AI-generated content, freely available to developers and businesses. Developed by DeepMind, this tool embeds digital watermarks into text, audio, images, and videos without affecting the quality or user experience of the content.

As AI becomes more common in various sectors, the question arises: how effective is human-machine collaboration? MIT researchers conclude that in some cases, humans and AI perform worse together than separately. However, they see potential when task division is clear.

On November 14th, Geert Wissink, Business Director of Amsterdam AI, will serve as a jury member at the Data Science Top 50 event.

Roemer Wage, a graduate of the University of Amsterdam with a degree in Information Science and currently pursuing a Master's in Information Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit, wrote his Bachelor's thesis titled "Regulating Generative AI: An Analysis of the EU Approach," which was graded an 8.5. Drawing on this research and his insights gained throughout his studies, he shares the following opinion on the role of AI in education.

AI is everywhere. SMEs face the challenge of keeping up with rapid digital developments. In an interview with the Centre of Expertise Applied AI at HvA, program leader André Gerver discusses the European Digital Innovation Hub Northwest (EDIH) and the role of the 'Test before Invest' work package, which helps SMEs in their digital transition.

Last week, Peter-Paul Verbeek officially opened the HAVA-Lab. This is the first lab of its kind at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) that studies video-AI from an interdisciplinary perspective. The central research question revolves around what defines human-aligned video-AI, how it can be made computable, and what determines its societal acceptance. The lab unites all seven UvA faculties in a groundbreaking effort, showcasing the power of collaboration in addressing complex societal challenges.