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  • AI in the hands of citizens – and grip on your health

    AI in the hands of citizens – and grip on your health

    Two consortium projects that EEMCS and TPM researchers are taking part in received NWA-ORC grants. These projects are the DECIDE project, in which AI systems are designed more democratically, and the BIO-COMPaSS project, which investigates whether understanding biological age motivates people to live healthier. In these projects, researchers collaborate with knowledge partners and societal organizations.…

  • DECIDE bridges the gap between citizens and AI

    DECIDE bridges the gap between citizens and AI

    Artificial intelligence is now present everywhere. But how can we design AI in a way that creates value for everyone? Recently, the project DECIDE, which focuses on fair, transparent, and democratic AI, received a grant of €6.8 million from the NWA ORC program of the Dutch Research Agenda. University of Groningen (Campus Fryslân) researcher Oskar…

  • ‘AI Must Become More Democratic for Ordinary Citizens’

    ‘AI Must Become More Democratic for Ordinary Citizens’

    The Dutch National Science Agenda (NWA) recently awarded funding to a multi-year, multidisciplinary research programme on the democratisation of AI: DECIDE. Professor Mieke Boon of the University of Twente’s Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) is the project’s principal investigator. What exactly does she plan to do? A conversation about citizens, Big Tech…