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HumaneAI extended until 2023

The HumaneAI project has been successfully extended into the HumanE-AI-Net under the H2020 call topic ICT-48-2020 – Towards a vibrant European network of AI excellence centres which now gives the consortium 3 years to build and exciting new scientific domain.

The HumanE AI Net brings together top European research centers, universities and key industrial champions into a network of centers of excellence that goes beyond a narrow definition of AI and combines world-leading AI competence with key players in related areas such as HCI, cognitive science, social sciences and complexity science.

New talk by project leader Paul Lukowicz

Künstliche Intelligenz Potenzial erkennen und nutzen

A new book by Virginia Dignum (Umea partner) is out with Springer

Responsible Artificial Intelligence, How to Develop and Use AI in a Responsible Way, Dignum, Virginia, Springer (New York – Berlin).

In this book, the Virginia Dignum examines the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence systems as they integrate and replace traditional social structures in new sociocognitive-technological environments. She discusses issues related to the integrity of researchers, technologists, and manufacturers as they design, construct, use, and manage artificially intelligent systems; formalisms for reasoning about moral decisions as part of the behavior of artificial autonomous systems such as agents and robots; and design methodologies for social agents based on societal, moral, and legal values.

Humane AI research plans

We have shaped a report describing results from an initiative to organize a community of researchers and innovators around a research program that seeks to create AI technologies that empower humans and human society to vastly improve quality of life for all. Read the deliverable.

Policy recommendations for Human Centered AI

The HumaneAI team has summarised the ideas and considerations that have emerged in the course of considering various ways to sustain and develop a large-scale Humane AI community in the absence of a Flagship. They are intended as recommendations for the funding bodies of the Union with respect to an efficient implementation of large-scale long-term research initiatives in AI and similar fields. Read the deliverable.

HumaneAI third project meeting

On October 10 and 11 the HumaneAI partners meet in Den Haag to create the Reseach Roadmap for the new science of Human Centric Artificial Intelligence.

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science

On June 17 and 18 the HumaneAI partners designed and host five AI Research Labs aimed at generating greater awareness of the long-term implications of  a human-centered research agenda in AI among researchers, but also aimed at crating input for policy leaders, both within and outside of the civil service. This series is supported through the 37 partners under the leadership of DFKI.

Workshops to design a Human Centered AI roadmap in Europe

HumaneAI workshops in Paris
On June 17th and 18th the project partners will meet at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris to kick-start a series of research agenda workshops to leverage EU expectations of a Humane Centered AI in Europe. Delivering a compelling research is crucial to our chances of getting long term significant impact via the new Horizon Europe programme.

HumaneAI partners contribute to OECD AI principles

HumaneAI partners working with OECD
HumaneAI partners working with OECD

HumaneAI partner Jozef Stefan Institute with expert Marko Grobelnik has been involved in designing the OECD AI Principles which are the first such principles signed up to by governments and have been discussed also in the HumaneAI project.

On 22 May 2019 the OECD member countries approved the OECD Council Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence.

Beyond OECD members, other countries including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Romania have already adhered to the AI Principles, with further adherents welcomed. Ministerial  Meeting the AI Principles.

Relevant is the fact that this is the first AI document as a result of a political consensus among 36 OECD members and 5 non-member countries.

HumaneAI co-chairing a session at AI for Good Summit

The AI for Good Global Summit is THE leading United Nations platform for global and inclusive dialogue on AI
The AI for Good Global Summit is THE leading United Nations platform for global and inclusive dialogue on AI

HumaneAI partner Virginia Dignum from Umeå University is co-chairing a session at AI for Good Summit this week to discuss the similarities and differences of different guidelines (IEEE, EAD, EU and OECD) and the potential issues of having alternative proposals for guidelines, together with representatives from the groups who created the guidelines and several ‘users’ from across the world, including Europe, China, Africa and Caribean. Please join us on Friday 31st if you are in Geneva for AI for Good.

H2020 Call on European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres: Information and Brokerage day

H2020 Call on European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres: Information and Brokerage day
H2020 Call on European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres: Information and Brokerage day

HumaneAI partners are attending the match-making brokerage day on 28 May 2019 in Brussels for the call on European Network of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Centres. Besides the presentation from the European Commission on information needed to participate in the call for proposals, we will be activelly looking for networking opportunities with representatives of other institutions and Excellence Centers. We are planning to setup a Network to mobilise the best research teams and the most prominent experts in the field and join forces to tackle more efficiently the Human Centric, Ethical, and European AI.

Join us in Brussels!