Strategic Advisory Board AI Board
The artificial intelligence (AI) Board was founded in 2024 as a strategic advisory board of Heidelberg University. The main duty of the interdisciplinary committee is to advise the Rectorate and develop and discuss guidelines for all the university’s strategic fields of action surrounding artificial intelligence.
Tasks
In view of the requirements of a liberal, democratic and social constitutional state, they advise the Rectorate on all questions relating to the use of AI in research, study and teaching, transfer and continuing education, as well as on issues of strategic development in these areas. The AI Board also discusses assessments of ethical aspects of artificial intelligence and issues of risk management and develops recommendations accordingly. It also supports networking efforts with external partners and the communication of science to the general public.
Composition
Representatives of Heidelberg University from the humanities, engineering sciences, life sciences, natural sciences and social sciences as well as from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities as well as heiSKILLS, the university’s Competence and Language Centre, are all involved in the AI Board. In addition, the Board also includes researchers from the CZS Heidelberg Center for Model-Based AI, the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence and the AI Health Innovation Cluster.