This week, King's College London hosted NVIDIA's AI Safety and Security Research forum at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE).
The forum brought together UK business leaders, academics, and security experts to discuss AI safety and security. The event featured a fireside chat with CEO and Co-Founder of world leading AI and accelerated computing company NVIDIA, Jensen Huang.
Guests also heard from industry leading speakers about the science of AI safety and the engineering required to protect national security.
Jensen Huang, who co-founded NVIDIA in 1993, was welcomed to LIHE by Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Senior Vice President (Research & Special Initiatives) and Professor Sebastien Ourselin FREng FMedSci, Assistant Principal (Innovation).
It was a pleasure to welcome Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO alongside other national and global leaders in AI safety and security to King's for this important discussion. AI offers significant opportunities but also complex societal challenges. Universities have a vital role in providing the research, evidence and expertise to shape its future, particularly in safety, security and ethical use. Through our AI Institute and AI+ investment, King's is helping advance the innovation, evidence and talent needed for responsible AI development and deployment for good.
Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Senior Vice President
King's London Institute for Healthcare Engineering is a building dedicated to bringing MedTech innovations to patients and the market. LIHE offers hands-on executive support for medical innovations from across the UK, enabling MedTech breakthroughs to enter the market at pace, and supporting patient care and outcomes.
Events like today, which bring together global business leaders and world-leading academics to address complex challenges, reflect the central role of LIHE in fostering collaboration between industry and academia. These connections drive advances across healthcare innovation, from next-generation medical technologies to groundbreaking applications of AI, helping to accelerate improvements in patient care and outcomes.
Professor Sebastien Ourselin FREng FMedSci, Assistant Principal (Innovation)
King's is leading work on AI through the Institute for Artificial Intelligence which brings together the best minds at King's and beyond to accelerate the development of safe, secure and ethical AI that tackles major national and global challenges. The Institute is currently leading research programmes across key themes, such as AI and Workforce Futures and Doing Science Well with AI.
This year King's also welcomed 19 AI+ Senior Fellows as part of King's £18 million AI+ investment, created to support researchers who will push the boundaries of how artificial intelligence is used in science, society and the arts. The AI+ Senior Fellows will tackle questions ranging from how to prevent avoidable deaths and improve cancer care to how AI can reshape musical composition, monitor environmental change and make political debate less polarised. The AI+ Senior Fellows will work closely with the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
