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urn:hdl:2117/345484 The ethical use of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence: fighting COVID-19 at Barcelona Supercomputing Center Cortés García, Claudio Ulises Cortés Martínez, Atia Garcia Gasulla, Dario Pérez Arnal, Raquel Leandra Álvarez Napagao, Sergio Álvarez Lacalle, Enrique Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica::Bioinformàtica Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial COVID-19 (Disease) High performance computing Big data Ethics Artifcial intelligence Machine learning Data protection COVID-19 (Malaltia) Càlcul intensiu (Informàtica) Dades massives Ètica The COVID-19 pandemic has created an extraordinary medical, economic and humanitarian emergency. Artificial intelligence, in combination with other digital technologies, is being used as a tool to support the fight against the viral pandemic that has affected the entire world since the beginning of 2020. Barcelona Supercomputing Center collaborates in the battle against the coronavirus in different areas: the application of bioinformatics for the research on the virus and its possible treatments, the use of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and big data techniques to analyse the spread and impact of the pandemic, and the use of the MareNostrum 4 supercomputer to enable massive analysis on COVID-19 data. Many of these activities have included the use of personal and sensitive data of citizens, which, even during a pandemic, should be treated and handled with care. In this work we discuss our approach based on an ethical, transparent and fair use of this information, an approach aligned with the guidelines proposed by the European Union. Peer Reviewed Postprint (author's final draft) 2022-05 Article https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-021-00056-1 https://rdcu.be/ckteJ Open Access Springer Science and Business Media LLC