Artificial intelligence and university
On this page, the Vice-Rectorate for Digitalization and Sustainability provides information on the topic of “artificial intelligence” at the University of Innsbruck. We present innovations and news in the area of training and further education and announce events on the topic of AI. If you have any questions or suggestions in this area, you can contact us at any time at digital-nachhaltigk@uibk.ac.at.
FAQs on the topic of AI at the University of Innsbruck
... are intended to provide an orientation framework on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) for students, teachers and researchers at the University of Innsbruck.
New: data protection-friendly AI for employees
Employees of the University of Innsbruck now have secure and data protection-compliant access to ChatGPT via the “Academic AI” application. The application runs on a protected Microsoft Azure instance and provides a secure environment in which the AI model can be used. Data that you upload as a user does not leave this secure environment.
AI events and training courses
Theme café: AI and teaching
As part of the open DMLT mentoring course, the teaching community is regularly offered themed café events aimed at promoting the exchange of experiences among teachers, including on the topic of AI.
Overview over all courses
Here you find an overview over all current courses of the e-learning department.
Recommended educational materials
AI-Campus
The AI Campus is a learning platform for artificial intelligence with free online courses, videos and podcasts to strengthen AI and data skills. As an R&D project, the AI Campus is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
iMooX
iMooX offers freely accessible and openly licensed online courses (Massive Open Online Courses) on various topics, which are available to all interested parties free of charge, regardless of time and place. Lots of the courses are available in Englisch, too.
Further information and documents
Under the following link you will find an overview of examples from other universities and colleges for dealing with and using artificial intelligence in teaching and research.
Digitalisation and the use of new technologies, above all artificial intelligence (AI), are constantly increasing and transforming socio-economic developments. It is the task of colleges and universities to take a critical look at the further development of these technologies in both research and teaching, but also at the effects and the resulting changes.
The aim of these guidelines is to promote trustworthy AI. A trustworthy AI is characterised by three components that should be fulfilled throughout the entire life cycle of the system:
- It should be lawful and thus comply with all applicable laws and regulations,
- it should be ethical and thus guarantee compliance with ethical principles and values, and
- it should be robust, both technically and socially, as AI systems can cause unintended harm even with good intentions.
Since March 2024, the European Commission and the European Research Area (ERA) have issued guidelines on the responsible use of AI in research.
To the information page on the publication of the guidelines
Contact points
Vice-Rectorate for Digitalisation and Sustainability