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Digitalization is a driver of innovation and creates opportunities as well as challenges for society and science. As a university with unique expertise on the interfaces of technology and ethics, economics, law, psychology and sociology, Tilburg University strives to make digitalization work for both society as a whole and for individual people.
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Elisabeth Huis in ’t Veld
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News
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Who will control the truth in the synthetic reality we create with AI?
11th March 2024Who will control the truth in the synthetic reality we create with AI? This is one of the questions addressed in TAISIG Talk #22 in which Pieter Spronck and Aimen Taimur interview Bart van der Sloot (TILT) and author of the recently published book "Regulating the Synthetic Society".
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Disruptive AI calls for a disruptive legal response
04th March 2024Generative Artificial Intelligence is advancing at unprecedented speed. Its possibilities seem endless, but so do the dangers. How should we regulate this technology so that the risks are mitigated and the opportunities facilitated? That question is answered by Bart van der Sloot, Tilburg University, in his latest book: Regulating the Synthetic Society.
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Katrijn Van Deun awarded prestigious NWO Vici grant to develop new data science methods
29th February 2024Professor Dr. Katrijn Van Deun, professor of ‘Data Science for the Social and Behavioral Sciences’ at Tilburg University, has been awarded a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this subsidy, she aims to develop research methods that can contribute to complex developments in the field of data within our society. Katrijn Van Deun joins the ranks of 35 scientists across the Netherlands who will be receiving a Vici grant today.
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Digital Sciences for Society
Digitalization is here to stay. It is a driver of innovation and creates challenges as well as opportunities for society and science.
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Zero Hunger Lab
Tilburg University’s Zero Hunger Lab is a research group that aims to achieve global food security through the power of data science.
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MindLabs
MindLabs is a partnership specializing in enhancing human interaction with interactive technologies such as Robotics, Serious Gaming, Virtual Reality and Natural Language processing.
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TAISIG for human-centric AI
Tilburg University stands out for its holistic, multidisciplinary approach to Artificial Intelligence, combining a technical perspective with a focus on the social, legal, ethical and economic demands and impact of AI.
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Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication
We study how people communicate with each other and how computer systems can be taught to communicate with us.
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