BeeKeeperAI and cStructure Collaborate to Advance Causal AI for Scientific Advancement and Healthcare Innovation

Joint efforts kick off with DREAM Challenge that allows scientists to compute on NIH’s Covid data in a privacy-enhancing environment and experience an unprecedented level of transparency in generative AI

BeeKeeperAI, Inc., a pioneer in privacy-enhancing, multi-party collaboration software for AI development and deployment, and cStructure, a leading innovator in collaborative causal inference, today announced a collaboration for advancing causal AI to speed up the ability of scientists, health data stewards and AI algorithm developers to build and train AI models that can be trusted for scientific advancement and healthcare innovation.

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Causal AI is one of the next big frontiers for GenAI to be successful and more widely trusted in the healthcare and scientific fields − going far beyond just identifying patterns as traditional AI is known to do.

The two companies are pioneering a novel, causal AI-centric approach that preserves patient data privacy, while enabling transparency, at scale, to better understand and model cause-and-effect relationships within health-related data, including data from large populations. The rigorous data analysis is captured in causal graphs that can be reliably used in high-quality, regulatory-grade life science. Ultimately, causal AI makes GenAI more trustworthy and compliant with regulatory-based best practices.

To kick off this collaboration, BeeKeeperAI and cStructure are launching the “Covid Causal Diagram DREAM Challenge,” a crowd-sourcing initiative that opens up access for scientists to analyze real-world COVID data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a privacy-enhancing environment for the purpose of accelerating the determination of the causal relationships between treatment and patient outcomes.

Causal AI is one of the next big frontiers for GenAI to be successful and more widely trusted in the healthcare and scientific fields − going far beyond just identifying patterns as traditional AI is known to do. Causal AI is an answer to the struggles of GenAI to consistently deliver the best possible factual information. Causal AI is designed to explain why something happened and what will happen. It is also a key to speeding up how regulatory bodies, such as the FDA, evaluate clinical studies that use AI. Critical to the advancement of causal AI are transparency, data privacy, efficiency and global access to real-world data.

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“Our collaboration with cStructure is a perfect match to leverage GenAI for innovation at the speed of industry, combining BeeKeeperAI’s privacy-preserving EscrowAI data platform and cStructure’s causal diagram tech to accelerate the adoption of causal AI for improving human health,” said Dr. Michael Blum, MD, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at BeeKeeperAI. “We’re excited about our first project with cStructure to address the challenges of AI in health-centric applications. Through the DREAM Challenge, biomedical scientists will be able to compute on NIH data in our privacy-enhancing EscrowAI environment and have teams collaborate to build causal graphs. The results have the potential to change the way that the community thinks about causal relationships and transparency of AI in healthcare.”

Erick R. Scott, MD, Founder of cStructure, said, “We have made significant progress at cStructure in establishing a collaborative interface for developing causal diagrams that visually represent treatment effects, confounders, and outcomes. A necessary complement is a secure collaboration environment where AI models can compute on sensitive data while preserving privacy and protecting the intellectual property of the model. BeeKeeperAI delivers a privacy-preserving platform that automates the use of confidential computing, which provides the highest level of security for AI. We’re proud to partner with BeeKeeperAI on the Covid Causal Diagram DREAM Challenge and on the opportunity to make causal AI mainstream for science and healthcare.”

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