This month, the UvA and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies will reflect on the 20th anniversary of the study and research programme Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands. What once began with three students has[…]
The UvA’s research priority area Human(e) AI has awarded seed funding to two research projects following its third annual call for funding. One project will investigate the conditions under which an autonomous agent should take the responsibility to act, the[…]
It’s often thought that science is mostly communicated through theoretical (and boring) presentations in scientific meetings and complicated articles in scientific papers. Gladly, more and more science outreach has taken place during the past years, as the public interest towards[…]
For the first time, the Earth Commission has brought together the complexity of humans living on Earth in a framework that defines a challenging and fundamental core pillar for their work: how to determine what’s “safe and just” for Earth’s[…]