Outlining 4 precedence areas, the Framework focusses on the UK and Qatar’s safety partnership, increasing financial ties, establishing joint motion on international points and strengthening people-to-people connections.
It builds on the priorities set out within the 2010 UK-Qatar Dynamic Partnership, was agreed in the course of the Amir of Qatar’s go to to the UK in December and is funded by the UK authorities’s Gulf Technique Fund.
On the forefront of the Framework is the institution of a joint AI analysis fee and collaborations between a few of the UK and Qatar’s main universities in areas of AI, know-how and healthcare.
“The UK and Qatar have proven themselves to be trailblazers in AI innovation and coverage, while conscious of the necessity to construct sturdy methods of ethics and governance.
“I’m delighted that such prestigious UK and Qatari establishments are concerned on this essential initiative. It displays each international locations’ want to work collectively on the shared challenges the twenty first century will convey,” mentioned Neerav Patel, British Ambassador to Qatar.
One of many tasks is the UK-Qatar Genomics Analysis Collaborative between Queen Mary College of London (QMUL) and Sidra Hospital in Doha which focuses on precision medication, taking an progressive strategy to tailoring illness prevention based mostly on folks’s genes, environments and existence.
The partnership consists of plans for a UK-Qatar Precision Healthcare Academy to coach the subsequent era of clinicians, scientists and counsellors from each international locations.
One other collaboration led by QMUL in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute and Hamad bin Khalifa College is an AI analysis fee to determine a roadmap for UK–Qatar AI cooperation, exploring ecosystem improvement, coverage and regulation, safety and worldwide engagement.
This initiative guarantees to be a catalyst for ingenuity and industrial alternative, fostering a brand new period of technological cooperation
David Leslie, QMUL
Professor Colin Bailey, QMUL president, mentioned he was “proud” and “honoured” to be embarking on the collaboration, which might “enable each universities to mix their collective information and strengths to make sure AI know-how is utilized in the most effective, most secure approach potential”.
QMUL’s professor David Leslie of Ethics, Know-how and Society emphasised that now is a crucial time to harness AI’s energy for the general public profit, whereas addressing rising dangers and harms.
“By leveraging the dynamic AI analysis and innovation ecosystems of each nations, this initiative guarantees to be a catalyst for ingenuity and industrial alternative, fostering a brand new period of technological cooperation between two international leaders within the subject,” mentioned Leslie.
