Harnessing AI for Societal and Technological Challenges: Key Findings from the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Research Center for Applied Computer Science

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Applied Computer Science Research Center convened experts to explore the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science in healthcare, cybersecurity, urban infrastructure, and online misinformation detection. Key discussions highlighted AI's potential to generate actionable insights, improve clinical outcomes, develop hate speech detection tools, and enhance cybersecurity through advanced threat assessment, also considering ethical aspects. The importance of robust data architectures for effective AI deployment was emphasized, particularly in the absence of traditional datasets. This article provides insights into these topics and points out ongoing and future research.