The right to an explanation under Article 86 of the AI Act: An effective individual right or a merely symbolic guarantee? Article 86 of the AI Act is intended, under certain conditions, to enable persons affected by a decision based on the output of a high-risk AI system to obtain a clear and meaningful explanation
Background The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), the first EU-wide and sector-neutral regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (“AI”), has been in force since August 2024, as previously reported. Its aim is to establish harmonised standards for AI products. Depending on the level of risk posed by an AI application, the AI Act provides for
Digital labour and rights at the Digital Humanism Conference 2026 From 24 to 26 June 2026, the Digital Humanism Conference, DigHum 2026, took place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences under the theme “Orientation in turbulent times”. Our colleague Madeleine Müller participated as a panelist in the session “Digital Labour: power, rights, and control”. Drawing
Launch of IHI JU PROBE Initiative to Transform Osteoarthritis Treatment We are proud to announce today's launch of our new research project PROBE, an IHI-funded pioneering initiative to transform osteoarthritis treatment through federated data and AI-driven clinical innovation. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive joint disease affecting over 500 million people globally, causing pain, disability,
Insights into the General Assembly of the research project “dAIbetes” in Rome The project partners of the groundbreaking Horizon Europe project “dAIbetes” gathered under the leadership of the University of Hamburg (UHAM) in Rome from 12 to 13 December 2024 to review the first year of the project and to discuss the next steps
Federated learning and diabetes research: Horizon project “dAIbetes” launched in Innsbruck with RI as project partnerThe pioneering Horizon project “dAIbetes” was launched on 22 and 23 January 2024, when the project partners, led by Prof. Jan Baumbach from the University of Hamburg, gathered in Innsbruck (Austria) for the official kick-off-event. This EU-funded project brings together
Project Kick-off “FAIR-AI” – Fostering Austria’s Innovative strength and research excellence in Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Digital Human Rights Center is happy to announce the launch of the Austrian Artificial Intelligence Mission flagship project "FAIR-AI - Fostering Austria's Innovative strength and research excellence in Artificial Intelligence" under the leadership of th austrian institute of
The Paper The paper called "The FeatureCloud Platform for Federated Learning in Biomedicine: Unified Approach" introduces FeatureCloud, an innovative platform designed to simplify federated learning (FL) in various fields, with a focus on biomedicine. FL is a technique that enables the training of machine learning models using decentralized data sources without sharing sensitive information. Existing