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Trained as a bioinformatician, Nicolas Salamin leads the University of Lausanne’s AI Strategic Unit with the ambition of turning the artificial intelligence revolution into a collective, ethical, and human-centred project. Coming from bioinformatics research and confronted early on with the challenges of big data, he advocates for an AI conceived as a tool serving science, teaching, and society, rather than an end in itself. Launched at the end of 2024, UNIL’s AI strategy is built around an original executive structure tasked with coordinating initiatives, training the entire university community, defining clear guidelines, and regulating AI use, particularly in teaching and research. Structured around the themes “AI and environment,” “AI and society,” and “AI and the individual,” this strategy leverages UNIL’s distinctive strengths high-quality data, interdisciplinarity, and a critical approach to stand apart from technical universities and to assert the University’s role as a key actor in the debate on responsible AI in the service of the common good.