Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL), the first highly automated cloud research lab, today announced the creation of the first-of-its-kind Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scientific Advisory Board (AISAB). The newly established panel will bring together selected expert researchers from different fields who will work together to develop policies, processes, and procedures and review the ethics of applying AI to scientific research within ECL’s cloud lab environment. The establishment of the AISAB is an important milestone given the future AI applications capable of designing experiments in the Emerald Cloud Lab.
“The emergence of large language models based on deep learning algorithms such as GTP-4 offers tremendous potential for accelerating innovation by helping researchers design experiments and translate experimental methods into code that is then hosted in our cloud lab can be used to conduct meaningful experiments,” said Ben Smith, VP of Engineering at Emerald Cloud Lab.
Today, ECL offers researchers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year access to state-of-the-art laboratories from anywhere in the world. This leads to significantly faster innovation at a fraction of the cost, as researchers spend less time in the lab and more time designing new experiments and analyzing data.
ECL’s AI Scientific Advisory Board consists of the following experts in their respective fields:
Erika Alden DeBenedictis, Ph.D. biological engineering. He currently works as a computational physicist and synthetic biologist at the Francis Crick Institute.
Gabe Gomes, Ph.D. Chemistry. He currently works as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Armaghan Naik, Ph.D. Computational Biology. Currently serving as CEO of Avronna.
Dr Andrew Trister, MD Medicine, Ph.D. in Bioengineering. Currently works as Associate Director of Digital Health and AI at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Stephen Wolfram, Ph.D. theoretical physics. Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and Wolfram Alpha.
Christopher Wolfram, software engineer at Wolfram
Working together, AISAB will propose new policies and ethical frameworks and advise Emerald Cloud Lab on how best to implement those policies.
“We are delighted to have such a distinguished group of scientists join our AI Scientific Advisory Board. I am confident that their collective expertise and insights will be invaluable in shaping the best way to use AI in scientific research,” said Brian Frezza, co-founder of Emerald Cloud Lab.
