On Friday, November 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of State, U.S. National Science Foundation, and U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology convened the first ever government-led global summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled bioscience, co-hosted by Microsoft, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The AI-Bioscience Collaborative (AIBC) Summit represents a milestone in international cooperation on emerging technologies that promises to deliver innovative solutions to some of society’s greatest challenges — including in healthcare, food security, and addressing climate change, to name just a few.
The AIBC Summit brought together:
Over the course of two days, AIBC Summit participants:
Finally, participants identified possible voluntary mechanisms for pooling existing and new DNA, RNA, and protein data, as well as sharing expertise and tools among researchers, developers, and technologists around the world to accelerate biotechnology innovation. The AIBC plans to convene a follow-up summit.