The Future of ScienceAI-First, Trustworthy, Human-Steered

Two days of talks and panels on how Large Language Models are revolutionizing the way we do research, organised by the UKP Lab, the Zuse School ELIZA and the ELLIS Unit at TU Darmstadt.

Friday also features a special session on the future of AI: with the next report of Stanford's One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) upcoming, we revisit the predictions of its last report and ask where AI goes next.

See the program The Future of AI
The Residenzschloss in Darmstadt on a clear day, a few minutes' walk from the symposium venue.
Residenzschloss Darmstadt, minutes from the venue. Photo by Rudolf Stricker.

22 - 23 October 2026

Thursday and Friday, before EMNLP 2026

Wilhelm-Köhler-Saal, TU Darmstadt

Hochschulstr. 1, Room 283, 64289 Darmstadt

By invitation

Talks, two panels and a special session on the future of AI

About the symposium

The Future of Science: AI-First, Trustworthy, Human-Steered

The UKP Lab, together with the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence ELIZA and the ELLIS Unit Darmstadt, is organizing a two-day international symposium at TU Darmstadt bringing together an outstanding lineup of speakers and panelists from leading institutions worldwide across invited talks on recent advances in large language models, multimodal and multilingual systems for expert domains, AI for Science, and the open problems of faithfulness, uncertainty, safety, and societal impact.

The program features two panel discussions: "No Computer Scientist in the Loop? Is AI for Science Going to Replace Us Soon?" and "Our Main Priorities in Developing the Methodology of AI for Research."

A particular highlight will be a special session on the future of AI. With the next report of Stanford's One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) upcoming, a fireside chat revisits predictions from its last report five years ago, discusses how AI has evolved since, and speculates about the future.

Who is coming

Speakers and panelists

    Schedule

    Program

    All times are Central European Summer Time. This is a tentative schedule and may still change.

    Venue

    Wilhelm-Köhler-Saal, TU Darmstadt

    The west wing of the Altes Hauptgebäude at TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstrasse 1, under a clear sky.

    TU Darmstadt, Wilhelm-Köhler-Saal (Raum 283)
    Altes Hauptgebäude, Hochschulstr. 1, 64289 Darmstadt