Comment by Nicole Grobert

It’s great to see this proposal is now gaining traction. We need to make sure that we think carefully about how an AI institute is designed, because it really matters. [...] It should provide fair access to massive high-performing computational power, a sustainable cloud infrastructure, funding for research with AI and AI training programmes for researchers in all disciplines to explore and adopt AI in their sciences. [...] We advised in April that a distributed model would bring many advantages and avoid some of the pitfalls of a single monolithic entity. Unverified source (2024)