Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf
Mit gerade mal 30 Jahren hat Alicia von Schenk den Lehrstuhl für „Economics of AI“ an der Uni Würzburg gegründet. Sie rät hinter den aktuellen Hype um die Technologie zu schauen.
Alicia von Schenk has always been ahead of her time. By the age of four, she was enrolled in school, and by fifteen, she had earned a 1.0 grade. She pursued degrees in mathematics and economics at Frankfurt and Heidelberg universities, earning her PhD in economics with a focus on the effects of AI, graduating summa cum laude and with the highest honor.
At just 30 years old, von Schenk became a professor ex officio, a rare occurrence in Germany where the average age of first employment is nearly 44 years. Today, she heads the Chair for "Economics of AI and Human Behavior" at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg – one of the few in Germany that explicitly focuses on the economic and behavioral impacts of AI.
Von Schenk, one of the country's youngest professors, is often hailed as a prodigy. How did she achieve such early success, and how does she view the AI boom?
Von Schenk emphasizes that there is not just one AI. Despite the hype, AI is a collective term encompassing various technologies, ranging from simple statistical tools to large generative language models such as ChatGPT, and to complex neural networks of machine learning. "We call all of that AI," she states, "and that's too undifferentiated for me."
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