Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf

Alicia von Schenk, a recent AI professor in Germany, has debunked some of the biggest myths surrounding the field. At four years old, she was enrolled in school, and by 15, she had earned a 1.0 grade point average. She studied mathematics and economics at universities in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, graduating summa cum laude with the highest honors. At just 30 years old, she became a professor on a tenure track, though the typical age for first employment in Germany is nearly 44 years.

Today, von Schenk heads the chair for "Economics of AI and Human Behavior" at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, one of the few such programs in Germany that focuses explicitly on the economic and behavioral effects of AI. She is considered a prodigy. But how did von Schenk achieve such early success, and what does she have to say about the current AI boom?

Firstly, von Schenk clarifies that there is not just one AI. Despite the massive hype, there is no single AI. Instead, she explains, AI is a collection term for various technologies, ranging from simple statistical tools to complex neural networks used in machine learning. "All of this is what we call AI," she says. "I find it too undifferentiated."