The Wallenberg Foundations launched WASP-HS in 2019 to enable cutting-edge research, expertise, and competence building in order to foster interdisciplinary knowledge about how AI impacts humanity and society, and vice versa.
The vision behind WASP-HS is to promote new interdisciplinary knowledge within the humanities and social sciences about AI and autonomous systems and their impact on human and social development. WASP-HS enables cutting-edge research, expertise, and competence building within the humanities and social sciences. In this way, the program contributes to the development of innovative human technology and its transformative interaction with society. In total, the Wallenberg Foundations are investing up to 660 million SEK in the research program WASP-HS.
The WASP-HS program is planned to run from 2019 to 2029 and forms an independent and parallel program to, while maintaining a close dialogue with, the WASP program. WASP-HS includes the following components:
- A research program with a highly interdisciplinary community across all projects
- A national graduate school
- Recruitment of junior and visiting faculty across disciplines
- Outreach and collaboration with society
- International partnerships and activities
- Activities that involves all components