2026 Practice Committee Conference:

Responsible Research Practice and the Use of AI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting, enhancing and upending academic practice across scientific disciplines.

How do we address such a technology that offers enormous potential in augmenting and accelerating our work as researchers on one hand, but on the other hand has also shown questionable findings, tendencies towards bias and a troubling knack for hampering our independent thinking?

The Practice Committee at the University of Copenhagen invites all interested parties to discuss these issues and many more at its annual conference.

The conference will offer examples of AI use from different academic disciplines, introductions to current regulatory rules and invite the participants to discuss how such rules should be applied or perhaps revised.

Participation is free of charge. Prior registration is mandatory.

Programme

Time

Activity

15.00 – 15.05

Welcome

Prof. Mads Bryde Andersen, Chairman of the Practice Committee

15.05 – 15.25

What is generative AI?
Tenure Track Assistant Professor Pepa Kostadinova Atanasova, Dept. of Computer Science, UCPH

15.25 - 15.45

 Upsides and pitfalls in the use of AI in academic research

AI benefits for enhancing research in various academic fields, e.g. for

  • the handling big data and complex calculations
  • retrieving publicly available information

Some corresponding AI pitfalls

  • risks of bias, echoing and parroting viewpoints
  • the issue of hallucinations

Prof. Isabelle Augenstein, Dept. of Computer Science, UCPH

15.45 – 16.15

How are these risks regulated in existing codes of conduct?

  • Domestic (Danish) codes of scientific conduct related to AI use
  • International codes of scientific conduct related to AI use
  • Examples from major international academic journals
  • The new UCPH guidelines for AI in research

Associate Prof. Mads Paludan Goddiksen, member of the Practice Committee, Dept. of Food and Resource Economics, UCPH

16.15 – 16.45

Particular cases from different scientific fields

  • Science, Prof. Troels Christian Petersen, The Niels Bohr Institute, UCPH
  • Medicine, Prof. Ana Cvejic, Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, Cvejic Group, UCPH
  • Humanities, Prof. Giovanni Colavizza, Dept. of Communication, UCPH
  • Social sciences, Prof. Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Center for AI in Society, UCPH

16.45 – 17.00

Coffee break with refreshments

17.00 – 17.30

Could uncertainties on the use of AI be approached by a traffic light approach?

  • An introduction to such a possible approach by Prof. Mads Bryde Andersen, chairman of the Practice Committee
  • Comments by Deputy Prorector Morten Axel Pedersen, UCPH

17.30 – 18.00

Should UCPH take steps to draft or promote its own – national? standards for the use of  AI in academic research?

Open discussion with the audience moderated by Prof. Jens Lykkesfeldt, vice chair of the Practice Committee, based on initial views presented by the above panel

18.00 – 18.30

Snacks, drinks and get together