The official launch of the AUAS Expertise Center Applied AI took place on Thursday 5 November. With this, the university of applied sciences invests in the development of research and education of applied AI within all domains and disciplines. Nina Tellegen, director of the Board, was present at the opening: "Not everyone needs to become an AI expert, but you should all know much better what AI actually does and what it means to you."

With the opening of the VU Campus Centre for AI & Health, another piece of Amsterdam’s wildly ambitious ‘AI Technology for People’ initiative falls into place. The online launch event highlighted how a diversity of specialists is required to bring a people-centric artificial intelligence to healthcare.

All the medical insights and life-saving procedures we know are based on years of research with patients in front of us. We now have a unique opportunity to greatly accelerate medical research if we use health data in a sensible, safe, and ethical way. Jeroen Maas, Challenge Lead Health at the Amsterdam Economic Board, works with partners from the Amsterdam Coalition on the responsible use of this data and the acceleration of sensible AI applications within the health field.