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.

We will work on a roadmap for AI in industry with requirements and priorities created and maintained by our industrial partners.

Given the field’s highly dynamic nature, we will use a combination of online tools to help maintain and adapt these roadmaps, which, together with the research agenda and societal input, will form the basis for strategic decision-making and fund allocation in this project.

Because of the tremendous interest from industry and the need to innovate, we expect a very different collaboration model than what is found in typical EU projects and large scale projects.

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

HumaneAI Futures Labs: A series of workshops for a new AI science, at Centre International de Conférences Sorbonne Universités in Paris

The recently launched Humane Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative is well in line with the commitment of the European Commission and the ideas that Member States showed at Digital Day in key areas for Europe such as the preservation of cultural heritage and the responsible development of artificial intelligence.

This event was a showcase to put a strong emphasis on the ethical and social aspects of artificial intelligence.

HumaneAI Meeting with DG CONNECT

HumaneAI Meeting with DG CONNECT

HumaneAI Meeting with DG CONNECT

HumaneAI Meeting with DG CONNECT

HumaneAI Meeting with DG CONNECT

The envisioned Humane AI project AI will create technologies that synergistically work with humans, seamlessly fit in with our complex social settings and dynamically adapt to changes in our environment. It will develop world-leading insights and AI technologies, from fundamental algorithms, through methods specific to concrete applied AI domains such as Computer Vision, Robotics, IoT, Language  technologies and multi Agent Systems all the way up to disruptive AI applications and broadly usable platforms.

Core innovations will be:

1. Tools for enhancing human cognitive capabilities, channeling human creativity, inventiveness and intuition and empowering humans to make important decisions in a more informed way
2. AI systems that can intelligently interact with and within complex social settings and seamlessly adapt to changing, open-ended environments
3. Explainable, transparent, validated and thus trustworthy AI systems that will help us more effectively deal with the complexity of a networked globalized world and ways to embed values, ethics, privacy and security as core design considerations in all AI systems and applications.

To ensure broad and lasting socio-economic impact in areas which are important to Europe and its citizens on top of the basic research we will implemented dedicated impact-oriented work packages in domains such as Society and Policy, Industry 4.0, Sustainability and Energy, Finance, Science & Education, Health and Mobility/Automotive.

To realize the Humane AI vision the consortium has lined up key European players and brought the relevant community on board to mobilize the critical mass needed for success. Many of the partners have strong interdisciplinary research track records, and several PIs on this project hold ERC grants, documenting scientific excellence. With their capability, networks and experience, we have a solid plan to bring the remaining players into the flagship activity during the preparatory action phase.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

The Humane AI kick-off meeting was held on 11 April 2019 at the CINIQ center in Berlin with all partners attending.

Facilitating a European brand of trustworthy, ethical AI that enhances Human capabilities and empowers citizens and society

Location: European Parliament | Room PHS 5B001

Tuesday March 24^th

16:30 - 20.00

Cocktail reception as of 19:00

What is the purpose of the HumaneAI European Parliament event?

1. Inform interested stake-holders about the vision, its relevance for Europe and challenges that need to be addressed to make it reality.
2. Refine and improve the vision to make it best aligned with European policy goals.
3. Define a way forward to ensure that the vision gets implemented and contributes to Europe’s long term competitiveness on the world stage and to maintaining and disseminating core European values.
4. Send a strong public message about the commitment of all involved to ensure an overreaching positive impact of AI technology on European economy and society.

What is the rationale?

There is a strong consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring forth changes that will be much more profound than any other technological revolution in human history. Depending on the course that this revolution takes, AI will either empower our ability to make more informed choices or reduce human autonomy; expand the human experience or replace it; create new forms of human activity or make existing jobs redundant; help distribute well-being for many or increase the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few; expand democracy in our societies or put it in danger.

Europe carries the responsibility of shaping the AI revolution. The choices we face today are related to fundamental ethical issues about the impact of AI on society, in particular, how it affects labor, social interactions, healthcare, privacy, fairness and security. The ability to make the right choices requires new solutions to fundamental scientific questions in AI and human-computer interaction (HCI).

The HumanE AI project is a coordination action funded by Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program dedicated to shaping the AI revolution in a direction that is beneficial to humans both individually and societally, and that adheres to European ethical values and social, cultural, legal, and political norms. As core scientific challenge we have identified the development of robust, trustworthy AI systems capable of what could be described as “understanding” humans, adapting to complex real-world environments, and appropriately interacting in complex social settings. The overall vision is to facilitate AI systems that enhance human capabilities and empower individuals and society as a whole while respecting human autonomy and self-determination.

The HumanE AI project has:

1. Developed and consolidated a concrete research agenda for the above vison,
2. Built broad European community with the competences needed to implement that agenda,
3. Developed a concept for facilitating a broad socio-economic impact of the proposed research agenda and
4. Anchored the agenda a European ethical framework.

What is the vision?

This vision closely follows the ambitions articulated by the EC in its Communication on AI:  A European brand of AI that, by design, is trustworthy, adheres to European ethical, political and social norms and focuses on the benefit to European citizens as individuals, European society and European economy.  At the hearth of our vision is the understanding that those ambitions can neither be achieved  by legislation or political directives alone nor by traditional research in established disciplinary “silos”. Instead it needs fundamentally new solutions to core research problems at the Interface of  AI, human-computer interaction (HCI) and social science, combining theory, real world use cases and innovation oriented research.

What are we trying to achieve?

The HumaneAI community aims to develop the scientific foundations and technological breakthroughs needed to shape the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) revolution to fit the  above vision. Key challenges include: learning complex world models; building effective and fully explainable machine learning systems; adapting AI systems to dynamic, open-ended real-world environments achieving in-depth understanding of humans and complex social contexts; and enabling self-reflection within AI systems.

What will be the impact ?

The HumanE AI community  has mobilized a research landscape far beyond the direct project funding and brought together  a unique innovation ecosystem.  This has the potential for significant disruption across its socio-economic impact areas, including Industry 4.0, health & well-being, mobility, education, policy and finance. We aim to spearhead the efforts required to help Europe achieve a step-change in AI uptake across the economy.

Why are we the best to do it?

The project consortium, with 35 partners from 17 countries, and 4 large industrial members, has defined details of all aspects necessary to implement a full scale European action to mobilize major scientific, industrial, political and public support for the vision.