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AI is changing education fundamentally

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AI is rapidly changing how we work, learn and do research. This also presents a challenge for universities. The UZH think tank FutureU has developed future scenarios for universities in the digital age. We met with professor of medicine Claudia Witt and political scientist Karsten Donnay to find out what universities will need to do in the future, and how they should position themselves.

UZH Magazin 4/2025

AI in Health Care: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrative Medicine

As healthcare undergoes a significant digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile health applications get increasingly integrated to medical practice. AI is embedded in some health applications while absent in others, yet its expanding role in healthcare delivery is inevitable, affecting both conventional and integrative medicine. Claudia Witt will examine current and anticipated implications of AI in healthcare, including near-term challenges and opportunities as well as longer-term considerations. She will also discuss the development of Digital Twins.

Watch the presentation at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Harvard Medical School (December 2024)

With each other, not alongside each other

Photo: Stefan Walter

Artificial intelligence and big data are changing society fast. And that includes the university. UZH Digital Strategy Board members Harald Gall, Lena Jäger and Claudia Witt explain the opportunities and challenges it presents.

UZH Magazin 3/2024

Berlin Science Week: All we know about Digital Health Applications

«From hundreds of thousands of health apps, how do we know which to choose?» and «What is needed for a wise integration of apps into health care?» Claudia Witt from the University of Zurich will answer all these questions in the #allweknow Expert Talk at the Berlin Science Week.

Watch the video (October 2020)