“There’s a lot of AI use at KI, but instead of doing everything piecemeal, we’ll be gathering skills from within different fields. We’re there to support the researchers in their AI work as needed,” says Clara Hellner, adjunct professor at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience and presidential advisor in Life Science to Karolinska Institutet. She is also part of the new centre’s steering group.

A collaborative node

An important part of the centre’s activities will be to act as a collaborative node. According to Hellner, collaboration with the healthcare sector, for example, will involve such issues as data management and intellectual property rights as well as behavioral science. The new centre will also play an important part in KI’s collaborations with other universities.

Policy

The Centre for AI Innovation is also going to be developing policy in the field.

“I look forward to bringing the European policy perspective to the table. KI excels at medical research, no one can slap our wrists there, but I can contribute a broader social science perspective,” says Maja Fjaestad, a member of the steering group to Karolinska Institutet. She was previously at the European AI Office in Brussels.