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Artificial intelligence makes it possible to recognize character traits and mental illnesses from brain scans. This promises progress in medicine, but also raises serious ethical questions: How do we enable its use and prevent misuse at the same time?

From the background to the spotlight: The Helmholtz Software Award recognizes the often overlooked work of software developers in the association.

In just a few months, generative AI has transformed the world. In this interview with Lea Schönherr, researcher at CISPA, we tackle the challenges and security threats associated with generative AI.

The ecosystem on Cape Verde is one of the most productive in the world. A MarDATA hackathon on São Vicente brought scientists together to leverage the potential of marine data.

How is ChatGPT able to generate text? How can AI programs create images? The technology behind this is called deep learning.

At the HIDA Hackathon on Computer Vision, data scientists met in Berlin to develop innovative solutions for reducing energy losses in buildings.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing medicine. But doctors and developers also have to deal with the risks: The FRAIM project aims to find answers.

The Helmholtz Career Day for Data Science and IT connected qualified applicants with data science and IT backgrounds from all over the world with Helmholtz Centers and partners. This was the fourth edition of the virtual career day.

How is AI changing the face of education? Especially since the sucess of intelligent chatbots, lecturers have been asking themselves this question. John Bai is a post-doc at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg and is working on this topic. In this interview, he gives an optimistic outlook on the future.

Lynn von Kurnatowski from the DLR has created a special algorithm in collaboration with HIDA Fellow Martin Hennecke: It generates a live remix of a piece of music from biometric data. We spoke with her about the interdisciplinary project work.

From earth system sciences and energy research to biotechnology and medicine: Doctoral researchers from a wide range of research fields gather at the Helmholtz School for Data Science in Life, Earth and Energy (HDS-LEE) in Jülich. How do the PhDs benefit from the diversity of the three disciplines?

The Helmholtz Career Day for Data Science and IT brought qualified applicants together with Helmholtz centers. Guests from all over the world visited the virtual career day to learn about job opportunities in IT and Data Science.

Writing scores with your own heartbeat or turning sunshine into sound? Two projects at the intersection of data science and performative art were selected for the 2021 Art meets Science program of HIDA and the Academy for Theater and Digitality. In October and November, the art projects can now be viewed and heard in Potsdam and Saarbrücken.

Arne Biastoch is an oceanographer at GEOMAR in Kiel, where his research includes a focus on the role the powerful ocean currents system plays for our planet – and how climate change is impacting this system. Working with complex data and mathematical models is an indispensable part of this research – and a skill Biastoch is sharing with young scientists at the MarDATA Helmholtz Graduate School.

DLR and Airbus are working together to create a new airplane ‘factory’ in Hamburg where new concepts and technologies will be evaluated and tested. What makes it remarkable is that it takes up no space at all, because it is digital.