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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) suffers from several types of biases that reflect human failings. How can we avoid being tricked? With insights from Olivier Crochat, C4DT's executive director.

In addition to its core research activities as outlined below, the Swiss AI Initiative is distributing 10-20 million GPU hours in 2025 for disruptive research projects through open calls. We look for research projects that aim to contribute to advances in AI fundamentals or impactful applications of AI. Researchers outside…

Developed from EPFL research, in collaboration with MIT and Yale, the combination of secure computation and distributed algorithms opens a new era for data collaborations in medical research.

Le secrétaire américain à la Défense Pete Hegseth a ordonné une pause dans toutes les cyberopérations du pays contre la Russie. Deux experts - dont Olivier Crochat, directeur exécutif du C4DT - analysent cette décision, dont les impacts pourraient rapidement se faire sentir en Suisse et en Europe.

L’EPFL, en collaboration avec le MIT et Yale, a mis au point, SF-GWAS, un outil pour entraîner des intelligences artificielles sur le génome humain, sans partager les données. SF-GWAS est déjà utilisé dans les cinq hôpitaux universitaires suisses. Les explications de Jean-Pierre Hubaux, directeur académique du Center for Digital Trust…

EPFL has set up a Mastodon server for the School community, allowing members to post and share content in a way that’s aligned with the values of open science. We opted for Mastodon because independence and effective communication tools are critical.

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of our latest blog post exploring the remarkable year 2024 of matrix.epfl.ch. 📚In 2024, the Center for Digital Trust discovered matrix.epfl.ch hosted by Edwand Andò from EPFL’s Center for Imaging and decided to offer our support. This led to a fruitful collaboration in 2024…

In our latest edition of the C4DT Digital Governance Book Review, we discuss Marietje Schaake’s book which explores the deep intertwining of Big Tech with politics, highlighting its threat to democracy and proposing practical regulatory solutions to reclaim democratic processes and safeguard state sovereignty.    

Quelques jours après les 500 milliards de dollars d’investissements annoncés par les Etats-Unis, la France promet de mobiliser 109 milliards d’euros pour l’IA. Deux experts analysent ces déclarations et les chances de se diriger vers une forme de souveraineté européenne.

DeepSeek n’aurait-elle eu besoin que de 5,6 millions pour entraîner son modèle d’IA? De plus en plus de questions se posent, alors que de nouveaux modèles, développés à Stanford, n’auraient coûté que… 50 dollars. Le point avec Rachid Guerraoui.

We’re eagerly gearing up for the third annual Summit of Centers this August 2025! This year’s spotlight is on collaborations with industry and private foundations. Stay tuned for announcements of our external guests!

In line with C4DT’s objective to promote services in the realm of digital trust, we set up our own Matrix - an open source chat platform - instance and migrated our professional communications there in 2019.

We are incredibly proud to announce the publication of C4DT's 2024 Annual Report. Thanks to the support of many people (partners, researchers, government officials, etc.), the C4DT has further blossomed.

Créée par une start-up chinoise, DeepSeek se targue de faire jeu égal avec ChatGPT. Cette prouesse, avec des moyens techniques limités, montre que la Chine peut rivaliser avec les Etats-Unis dans cette course planétaire à l’IA.

Des chercheurs de l’EPFL ont perverti les principaux agents conversationnels dont ChatGPT. Est-ce grave? Une anthropologue, un sociologue et Antoine Bosselut, professeur d’informatique affilié au C4DT répondent.

Le piratage qui a touché le groupe médical Vidy Med révèle la fragilité des entreprises face à la montée en puissance des criminels de l'informatique. Avec l'éclairage de Jean-Pierre Hubaux, directeur académique du C4DT.

This issue examines the impact of the GDPR nearly seven years after its implementation, comparing data protection legislation in the EU and Switzerland, and explores future implications amid rising generative AI, featuring insights from interviews with data protection specialists.

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a weapon of mass disinformation, but a recent report has demonstrated that its impact thus far has been limited

🔒 Discover the fascinating world of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) – tools that fortify your digital shield 🌐! For this holiday season, treat yourself to a PET, like secure messaging, and VPNs 🚀.

For two years Brightside AI will complement the already diverse group of partner companies through its start-up perspective to collaborate and share insights on trust-building technologies. Brightside prepares a company’s employees for cyberattacks. Using employees’ digital footprints, Brightside runs AI-driven phishing simulations to prepare teams for potential cyberattacks. It gives…

This publication revisits key questions with speakers from the Oct 1st conference on “Deepfakes, Distrust and Disinformation" through the lens of public perception and seeks to advance the debate surrounding AI, misinformation, and disinformation, especially in political contexts.

📣 New Publication Alert! 📣 📽️ The recordings of the October 1st Conference on "Deepfakes, Distrust and Disinformation: The Impact of AI on Elections and Public Perception" are now accessible here

The issue revolves around the tension between the need for security in digital communications, exemplified by end-to-end encryption, and the concerns of governments and security agencies regarding their ability to intercept criminal activities, particularly the sharing of child sexual abuse material online.