This slide deck accompanies the AI4Science for scientists at UFZ Magdeburg: https://scads.github.io/ai4science-ufz-madgeburg-2026/intro.html It outlines the topics: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, AI systems, and language models Application areas and limitations of AI in text generation AI-assisted literature research Prompt engineering Prompting with large context Knowledge distillation Text Analysis / Information Retrieval Embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation Data analysis Data and code generation Bias Privacy-compliant use Copyright EU AI Act