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More than a third of UvA students have used UvA AI Chat

13 april 2026 - 07:45
More than a third of UvA students have used UvA AI Chat
Over one in three students at the UvA have used UvA AI Chat, the generative chatbot developed by the university. According to university figures, more than 4,000 students use the application at least on a monthly basis.
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Refocus on the student, rather than on the testing

19 maart 2026 - 13:16
Refocus on the student, rather than on the testing
Generative AI is profoundly changing higher education, but an excessive focus on secure testing can be harmful, writes Nicos Starreveld. “The real danger lies in constantly emphasizing and testing purely content-based performance and knowledge.”
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Han van der Maas | AI is the new smoking

13 maart 2026 - 11:21
Han van der Maas | AI is the new smoking
Large Language Models often work very well and can do everything from solving bugs to coming up with exam questions. But that has enormous consequences for education, Han van der Maas observes. “What should the final attainment levels of our education be now? What should a student still know about...
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UvA experts predict ‘stormy period’ due to geopolitical tensions

15 januari 2026 - 07:00
View of planet Earth from space, showing a partially illuminated hemisphere with a blue atmospheric glow, visible clouds and ocean surface, set against a dark, star-filled background.
Risk experts have become significantly more pessimistic about global short-term prospects. This is evident from the Global Risks Report 2026 by the World Economic Forum, to which UvA-professor Henk Volberda contributed. Fifty percent of the 1,300 experts surveyed expect the world to face a ‘turb...
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Petra de Sutter withdraws as prospective UvA honorary doctor

8 januari 2026 - 17:18
UGent rector Petra de Sutter declines her honorary doctorate at the UvA
Petra de Sutter, who was to receive an honorary doctorate from the UvA next week, has withdrawn as a candidate honorary doctor. De Sutter, rector of Ghent University, used an AI-generated fake quote from Einstein in a speech. The issue caused such a stir that De Sutter withdrew as prospective honora...
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Are students losing their ability to think critically because of ChatGPT?

4 december 2025 - 08:00
ChatGPT
ChatGPT has become an integral part of the average student’s life. For writing summaries or creating a study schedule, the chatbot may seem like a helpful solution. But is this AI program really such an innocent tool, or will an entire generation of students soon graduate having forgotten how to t...
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What happens when you let AI employees run your organization?

27 november 2025 - 13:34
What happens when you let AI employees run your organization?
What if the chair of the Executive Board were not a human being but AI? UvA researchers collaborated with a consultancy firm to investigate whether an organization could run entirely on AI. Spoiler alert: no, that is not possible.
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One third fewer first-year students in AI and computer science – how is this possible?

18 november 2025 - 13:25
The main building 904 of the Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Informatics (FNWI) at the University of Amsterdam.
Last week, it was announced that the student population at the UvA is declining for the first time in ten years. The Faculty of Science in particular has fewer first-year students this year. Computer science and artificial intelligence have been hit hardest, with a third fewer students.
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Realistic AI videos pose a threat to democracy, warns UvA researcher

5 november 2025 - 08:00
Realistic AI videos pose a threat to democracy, warns UvA researcher
More and more often, lifelike fake videos created by AI are popping up online, including some that appear to be set in the Netherlands. “In some cases, fake is indistinguishable from real,” says UvA researcher Laurens Naudts. According to him, this uncertainty undermines not only trust in these...
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AI fraud on the rise at law faculty: almost a third of all fraud cases involve AI

3 september 2025 - 08:00
AI fraud on the rise at law faculty: almost a third of all fraud cases involve AI
At the UvA Faculty of Law, 44 cases of AI-related fraud were reported last year. This accounts for nearly a third of all 143 recorded fraud cases. It is a striking increase compared to previous years, when AI-related fraud was still almost nonexistent
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Listening to course material via AI podcast boosts grades among UvA students

7 juli 2025 - 09:43
Listening to course material via AI podcast boosts grades among UvA students
UvA students who received AI-generated podcasts summarizing their study material turned out to be more motivated, spent more time reading, and most importantly: achieved higher grades. Research by UvA scholars shows that AI-powered audio can serve as the engine that gets students into study mode. ...
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UvA researchers can better predict extreme weather with AI model

23 mei 2025 - 14:01
Cloudburst over a field.
Weather forecasts have improved significantly in recent years with the help of AI. UvA researchers have contributed to an AI model that can now predict extreme weather more accurately than traditional weather stations. “If you see extreme weather coming, you have more time to make evacuation plans...
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How do we protect artists from AI-companies stealing their music?

19 maart 2025 - 15:44
Robot making music
Dutch singers’ voices can be recognized in the AI-generated music of popular AI apps, even though they did not give permission for this. How do we ensure that AI music is created fairly? University associate professor João Pedro Quintais has been researching this for years.  
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UvA scientists outsource expensive and boring tasks to AI – how responsible is that?

25 februari 2025 - 10:07
UvA scientists outsource expensive and boring tasks to AI – how responsible is that?
UvA scientists are saving time and money by using AI in their research. But critics warn that this is dangerous: it is impossible to know how AI like ChatGPT arrives at its answers. Is the new chatbot DeepSeek, which claims to be much more transparent, the solution? 
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UvA created its own ChatGPT for students and teachers. Is it safer than the original?

11 februari 2025 - 14:18
UvA created its own ChatGPT for students and teachers. Is it safer than the original?
Last week, the UvA completed the first round of an experiment in which a proprietary version of ChatGPT was used in 13 pilots. Students and lecturers could use this in a secure environment. Is this more reliable than ChatGPT, about which there are many privacy concerns?
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