Amelie on AI in research and education

2026-02-10

Last week, KTH's management team held a retreat where they discussed various current issues. This time, there was a special focus on AI in research, education and administration. It is clear that AI affects operations on several levels.

In research, there are groups that have AI and machine learning as their research area, while researchers in all our subject areas now use AI as a tool for data analysis, modelling, literature searches and text production. On the education side, we need to provide students with relevant knowledge in data analysis, machine learning and AI, while our teachers themselves use AI as a support in course design, teaching and course development.

In 2026, KTH will continue to work on both of these perspectives, and AI as a skill, learning method and teaching method will be included in the autumn programme review, which should lead to further programme development. At the same time, increased access to AI tools creates new challenges for fair and equal assessment, especially for homework assignments. This requires continued development of our teaching and examination methods, and I believe we will see major changes in the coming years.

Amelie