AI that serves science, citizens, and society

ai@cam is the University of Cambridge’s mission to drive a new wave of AI innovation that delivers public value

Announcing AI-deas: AI that delivers public benefit

New Cambridge University AI challenges will deliver game-changing AI innovations that benefit science and society.

Latest Research

Sep 12, 2024

‘Smart choker’ uses AI to help people with speech impairment to communicate

Jul 8, 2024

AI able to identify drug-resistant typhoid-like infection from microscopy images in matter of hours

Apr 19, 2024

Training AI models to answer ‘what if?’ questions could improve medical treatments

AI News

sciencepreneurship

ai@cam joins new European Alliance for AI sciencepreneurship

policy, dialogue

A future vision for AI: public perspectives on the role of AI and the Missions for Government

research and innovation

University of Cambridge alumni awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Upcoming Events

Nov 24, 2024

Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI – Neil Lawrence in conversation with Gina Neff

Nov 26, 2024

Keynote Seminar: AI and Science -An Opportunity To Strengthen the African Scientific Landscape

Dec 3, 2024

Mind the gap: bridging innovation’s supply and demand in the AI era

About ai@cam

ai@cam is the University of Cambridge’s flagship AI mission. Drawing from Cambridge’s world-leading research capabilities, it will drive the development of AI technologies that serve science, citizens, and society. Through research, teaching, and engagement across industry, policy, and civil society, ai@cam will create an infrastructure for interdisciplinary innovation that delivers public value.

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What we do

ai@cam is building an infrastructure for interdisciplinary innovation that serves science and society through research, education, and innovation programmes that leverage world-leading research from across the University and connect this to real-world needs. Read more about our work in our 2023-24 annual report at this link.

Driving challenge-led AI innovation

Challenge-led research initiatives from ai@cam will work to galvanise the research community in support of national priorities, bringing in people, partnerships, and approaches that help build capacity in a critical area of need.

Bridging from research to policy

ai@cam will provide a forum for convening policymakers and researchers, identifying areas of policy need, and rapidly spinning-up collaborative projects to help deliver on that need.

Building an AI innovation hub

Drawing on Cambridge’s strong history of innovation, ai@cam will build a hub brings together collaborators from different disciplines or sectors in an environment that encourages knowledge translation, while also connecting to social needs.