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Using AI in lifescience

a primer

Course content

This course introduces you to using AI in lifescience. It covers a number of topics that you should be familiar with if you want to use AI consciously and responsibly in your work. We will introduce you to: . - working with agentic AI - cybersecurity challanges specific to AI-assisted work - explainable AI illustrated with real life examples - legal and ethical aspects of AI-assisted work

Throughout the course, we will be focusing on providing examples and illustrating new concepts using cases taken from lifescience such as lab practise, clinical medicine, pharmacy etc.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you will be able to:

  1. use agents to assist you with simple tasks
  2. identify potential cybersecurity threats and bottlenecks in AI-assisted work
  3. know how to mitigate the most common cybersecurity risks in their work
  4. understand what xAI is and be able to explain this concept
  5. know selected examples of xAI techniques used in lifescience
  6. evaluate legal and ethical aspects of AI workflows
  7. plan their AI workflows with ethical and legal perspective in mind

Keywords

  • xAI
  • ethical AI
  • AI in lifecsience
  • agentic AI
  • AI cybersecurity

Topics covered

  • Agentic AI
  • Cybersecurity
  • xAI
  • Ethics and Legal

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Course founders

  • David Eklund, Ashwin V Mohanan (Sweden AI Factory)
  • Nina Norgren (SciLife Lab)
  • Elin Kronander, Marcin Kierczak (NBIS)

Contributors

  • Ivan Cucci, Abdul Ghafoor (Sweden AI Factory)
  • Lars Eklund, Louella Vasquez (NBIS)

Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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