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Professor
Organisation
DFKI & RPTU
Category
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer is Professor of Applied Machine Learning at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and heads the Data Science and its Applications department at the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). Previously, he conducted research at the University of Oxford and the Alan Turing Institute. Today, he develops agentic AI systems such as BioDisco, which combines knowledge graphs and large language models (LLMs) to enable autonomous hypothesis generation.
TALK
What Keeps Me Up at Night
AI gives us plenty of reasons to be excited. It also gives us a growing list of things to worry about.
How do we protect privacy when AI enters everyday life? What capabilities we may be putting into the hands of criminals and terrorists? How do we make AI safe, if we can't trust our safety statistics? How ready are we for the major shift that AI will bring to our work, state, economy?
In this talk, I’ll share a few things that keep me worried. Some of these worries have led us to build solutions, others are open questions. Expect glimpses into our research at DFKI - our work on privacy tools, AI safety, and my thoughts on how our society can stay relevant.
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