{
  "id": 9944186,
  "title": "Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/kunstliche-intelligenz-deutschlands-jungste-ki-professorin-raumt-mit",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-26T08:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/ki-expertin-wir-bekommen-keine-massenarbeitslosigkeit/100188740.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Alicia von Schenk, the youngest AI professor in Germany, debunks the biggest myths surrounding her achievements. Born with a head start, she began her education at four and earned a 1.0 A-level at 15. Von Schenk pursued mathematics and economics at Frankfurt and Heidelberg, earning a summa cum laude PhD in Economics with a focus on the impact of AI. Remarkably, she became a professor at the age of 30, while the average age for first employment in Germany is nearly 44. Currently, she leads the \"Economics of AI and Human Behavior\" chair at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, one of the few German professorships explicitly focusing on the economic and behavioral effects of AI. Von Schenk, a relatively young professor in the country, is often referred to as a prodigy. But what makes her so successful at such a young age, and how does she view the AI boom? One of the biggest myths is that there is only one AI. Von Schenk clarifies that AI is a broad term encompassing various technologies, from simple statistical tools to large generative language models like ChatGPT and complex machine learning neural networks. She criticizes this all-encompassing categorization as \"too undifferentiated.\"",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Handelsblatt",
        "title": "Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/kunstliche-intelligenz-deutschlands-jungste-ki-professorin-raumt-mit",
        "published": "2026-09-24T11:19:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}