US tech companies are attracting AI talent trained and conducting research at ETH Zurich, raising questions about Switzerland’s ability to retain expertise in a strategically important field. Professor Andreas Krause, head of the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group and Chair of the ETH AI Center, discusses the implications for Switzerland’s digital sovereignty and the importance of maintaining a strong AI ecosystem.
A single developer is using AI to recreate software such as Photoshop and Premiere, raising questions about the future of established software companies. Imanol Schlag, Research Scientist at the ETH AI Center and co-lead of the Apertus project, provides context on the capabilities and limitations of today’s AI models. (Watch from minute 3).
OpenAI’s latest advances in AI-generated mathematics have sparked debate over whether AI could eventually threaten modern encryption. Professor Florian Tramèr, head of ETH Zurich’s Secure and Private AI (SPY) Lab, and colleagues at ETH Zurich and Anthropic show that LLMs are becoming increasingly capable of cryptanalysis, testing 191 cryptographic tasks and uncovering novel attacks.