Since 2003, when Joachim Buhmann became an ETH professor, he has helped shape the explosive development of machine learning. It is not technical progress that worries him, but how society deals with it. Shortly before his retirement, he looks back on his academic career.
The ongoing development of artificial intelligence is often presented as a race between humans and machines. ETH professor Menna El-?Assady takes a different approach: she wants to develop an AI that can be used interactively and that shapes its capabilities only in collaboration with humans.