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AI’s race for power could turn big tech into energy system innovators
WU-researchers argue: The question is no longer how to power AI, but whether AI can boost the energy technologies needed to power a clean electricity system.
AI identifies corruption risks in the public sector
New study shows: Public servants’ values and attitudes predict corruption susceptibility better than income or education.
Can universities keep up with AI?
Oliver Vettori and Johanna Warm explore the challenges and potential pathways for integrating AI skills into higher education.
When AI systems learn to understand
Marta Sabou has won a prestigious grant from the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF) for research on AI knowledge graphs.
“Our goal is to grow a community of digital humanists”
How can we ensure that technology serves the people – and not the other way around? Questions like these are being researched at the new Doctoral College for Digital Humanism – a joint project of WU, the University of Vienna and TU Wien. In this interview, WU researchers Marta Sabou and Jan Maly explain why the world needs Digital Humanism more than ever.
How can we make online decision-making fairer?
From Doodle surveys to digital democracy: The internet gives us new opportunities to make group decisions. But how can such votes be made as fair as possible? This is what WU researcher Jan Felix Maly looks at in a new research project.
Mapping global rooftop growth for sustainable energy and urban planning
A novel machine learning framework to estimate global rooftop area growth from 2020 to 2050 can aid in planning sustainable energy systems, urban development, and climate change mitigation, and has potential for significant benefits in emerging economies.
Building the future of finance: Launch of the DIGITAL doctoral research program
Employing digital technologies to make the European financial sector more efficient, robust, and sustainable – this is the goal of the EU-funded MSCA Digital Finance research program. WU Vienna University of Economics and Business is on board as one of the partners.
“A unique opportunity to conduct fundamental research in the field of AI”
In the FWF Cluster of Excellence “Bilateral AI”, top researchers from Austria are working on the future development of artificial intelligence. Among them are experts from WU like Axel Polleres – in this interview, he talks about the goals they are pursuing and what the AI of the future could be capable of.