Corpus Fellow and Professor of Nanomaterials Nicole Grobert is Chair of the European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisers. She was recently interviewed by the European Parliament’s Science Hub about the Scientific Opinion on the successful and timely uptake of Artificial Intelligence in science in the EU Scientific Advice Mechanism.
Professor Grobert co-led the Scientific Opinion on AI. It was prepared upon the request by Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Margrethe Vestaeger and published earlier this year. The Scientific Opinion was picked up by President Ursula von der Leyen in her Political Guidelines for the next European Commission (2024-2029). In her political guidelines for the next European Commission President von der Leyen proposes one of the key recommendations of the Scientific Opinion: “to set up a European AI Research Council where all of European resources are pooled, similar to the approach taken with CERN”.
In the interview Professor Grobert was asked what benefits of using AI she sees for materials science. She says: "A responsible and timely up-take of AI in research will be critical for Europe to stay at the forefront of research and innovation. Besides the generation of high-quality of data to train AI machines it is key for all scientists to be AI literate. In AI the quality of the output is closely correlated with the quality of the input - ‘rubbish’ in means ‘rubbish’ out."
The full interview can be read here.
The Handover of the Evidence Review Report and Scientific Opinion, Successful and timely uptake of Artificial Intelligence in science the EU, can be watched here.