About the Institute
We unite AI development by coordinating research across Concordia's four faculties in collaboration with business, civil society, governments, and other researchers. Our mission is to demystify and enable real-world applications of artificial intelligence. We encourage researchers across the sciences, engineering, arts, business and humanities to put AI into practice and to consider how AI can be taken up to improve the status quo.
Guiding principles
Our guiding principles shape the relationships we form, the collaborations we work toward, and the research we invest in. They include:
- Engaged leadership caring for AI’s community and consequences
- Distributed research that considers collaboration, mutual aid, and academic freedom as key drivers of success
- Equity and justice acknowledging that bias is structural as well as statistical
- Inter-disciplinarity in theory and practice, knowing that data is social and technical
- Public interest scholarship to ensure that AI improves, not entrenches, the status-quo
WHY AI?
AI can help us tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing our society:
- climate change
- health and wellbeing
- sustainable cities
- food production
- wildlife preservation
The global AI market is expected to grow from roughly $10 billion in 2018 to $126 billion by 2025 and contribute up to $15.7 trillion per year to the global economy by 2030.
The economic impacts of AI could actually be over $50 trillion in 20 years leading to transformative forces and changes with significant socio-economic implications (source).
Research in AI must address important ethical, security and privacy issues.
The 4 pillars of the Applied AI Institute
Collaborate
High-impact projects grounded in societal and economic needs.
Nascent research-driven ideas from the ground up.Innovate
Innovative technologies for all AI-related research areas at the university.
Ethical and secure frameworks for the ideas and technology in development.Train
Training for the next generation to succeed in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence.Partner
Partner with external governmental, industrial and academic institutions.