Using AI in life science - A primer

Description

This course introduces you to using AI in life science and is organsed in collaboration with Sweden AI Factory and SciLifeLab Training Hub. 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 life science such as lab practise, clinical medicine, pharmacy etc.

Learning outcomes

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

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites

Level

Intermediate

Course leaders

David Eklund, Sweden AI Factory

Ashwin V Mohanan, Sweden AI Factory

Nina Norgren, SciLifeLab Training Hub

Elin Kronander, NBIS

Marcin Kierczak, NBIS

traininghub@scilifelab.se