The European Commission launched the ICT-48-2020 - Towards a vibrant European network of AI excellence centres programme with the intent of strengthening AI research excellence across centres and facilitate collaboration and networking.

To present the effort done to foster the adoption of European ethical values, we selected two relevant projects. The first one, the Foundations of Trustworthy AI project aims to approach an improved level of the trustworthiness of AI in Europe. While the HumanE AI project aims to include ethical discussion in fields where this topic is still under-considered fields

Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization

AI systems made safe, transparent and reliable

Project link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/952215

Maximising opportunities and minimising risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) requires a focus on human-centred trustworthy AI. This can be achieved by collaborations between research excellence centres with a technical focus on combining expertise in the areas of learning, optimisation and reasoning. Currently, this work is carried out by an isolated scientific community where research groups are working individually or in smaller networks. The EU-funded TAILOR project aims to bring these groups together in a single scientific network on the Foundations of Trustworthy AI, thereby reducing the fragmentation and increasing the joint AI research capacity of Europe, helping it to take the lead and advance the state-of-the-art in trustworthy AI. The four main instruments are a strategic roadmap, a basic research programme to address grand challenges, a connectivity fund for active dissemination, and network collaboration activities.

HumanE AI Network

Making artificial intelligence human-centric

Project link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/952026

The EU-funded HumanE-AI-Net project brings together leading European research centres, universities and industrial enterprises into a network of centres of excellence. Leading global artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories will collaborate with key players in areas, such as human-computer interaction, cognitive, social and complexity sciences. The project is looking forward to drive researchers out of their narrowly focused field and connect them with people exploring AI on a much wider scale. The challenge is to develop robust, trustworthy AI systems that can ‘understand’ humans, adapt to complex real-world environments and interact appropriately in complex social settings. HumanE-AI-Net will lay the foundations for designing the principles for a new science that will make AI based on European values and closer to Europeans.

Descriptions of the projects are taken by the site of the European Commission. More information on the projects here.

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Source: Francesca Foffano