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November 20, 2024

ELISE, HumanAI

Knowledge 4 All Foundation Completes Successful Engagements in European AI Excellence Networks: HumanE AI and ELISE

Knowledge 4 All Foundation (K4A) is pleased to announce the successful completion of its engagements in two prominent European Networks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Centres: the HumanE AI Network and ELISE (European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence). These initiatives have been instrumental in advancing human-centric AI research and fostering collaboration across Europe.

Both HumaneAI-Net and ELISE were part of the H2020 ICT-48-2020 call, fostering AI research excellence in Europe. — Both HumaneAI-Net and ELISE were part of the H2020 ICT-48-2020 call, fostering AI research excellence in Europe

The HumanE AI Network, comprising leading European research centres, universities, and industrial enterprises, has focused on developing AI technologies that align with European ethical values and societal norms. K4A’s participation in this network has contributed to shaping AI research directions, methods, and results, ensuring that AI advancements are beneficial to individuals and society as a whole.

In the ELISE project, K4A collaborated with a network of AI research hubs and associated fellows to promote research excellence and innovation in machine learning and AI. ELISE has emphasized the importance of data safety, security, and the development of explainable and trustworthy AI outcomes. K4A’s involvement has supported the dissemination of knowledge and methods across academia, industry, and society, contributing to Europe’s strategic advantage in AI technologies.

K4A remains committed to advancing AI research and development, building upon the foundations established through these collaborations. The foundation looks forward to future opportunities to contribute to the global AI community and to promote the responsible and ethical development of AI technologies.

July 25, 2023

ELISE, HumanAI

K4A gives support to IRCAI and AWS fellowship on climate via research network expertise

K4A will support with research capacity from EU projects a new program that selects and fully funds proof of concepts of new ideas leveraging advanced cloud computing and AI to solve some of the biggest challenges in the fight against climate change. It is a new program to fund Climate Tech startups’ R&D projects that need a great deal of cloud computing. Startups at any stage can apply, they just need to have a tech team capable of building with advanced computing services.

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It supports entrepreneurs and startups applying advanced cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to create new solutions that address the climate crisis. The Compute for Climate Fellowship will select innovative ideas and fully fund the design and building of their proof of concepts (PoC).

When a startup is selected for the fellowship, they will engage in a 2-3 month build with 1:1 advice from mentors and AWS credits to cover the AWS service costs of the build. Both IRCAI and AWS will provide selected startups with a team of mentors who are experts in AI, sustainability and ethics.

Startups will get access to advanced computing services, such as quantum computing, high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and AWS credits to cover the build of the PoC. In addition, all PoCs will be designed under the guidelines of UNESCO’s Ethics Impact Assessment for Artificial Intelligence to ensure that each solution is built with safe, trustworthy technology.

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European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence – Making Europe competitive in AI technology

May 25, 2023

General, HumanAI

Presenting the new science of Artificial Intelligence that can put Europe on the world stage in the European Parliament

K4A is very happy to have helped co-organize an awesome half-day event at the European Parliament, titled “Beyond ChatGPT: How can Europe get in front of the pack on Generative AI Models?“, with Humane AI Net, IRCAI – International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO, CLAIRE – Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe, TAILOR, AI4Media, and VISION.
A big thank you to Paul Lukowicz, Cees Snoek, Fredrik Heintz, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Virginia Dignum, Ieva Martinkenaite, Francesca Rossi, Holger Hoos, Marko Grobelnik, Catelijne Muller, Clara Neppel, Dino Pedreschi, and Cécile Huet.

Irena Joveva MEP, HumaneAI delivering a one day event @ European Parliament, Presenting the new science of Artificial Intelligence that can put Europe on the world stage, May 25, 2023 Brussels, Belgium, European Parliament, Room A5G1

HumaneAI delivering a one day event @ European Parliament, Presenting the new science of Artificial Intelligence that can put Europe on the world stage, May 25, 2023 Brussels, Belgium, European Parliament, Room A5G1

October 3, 2022

HumanAI

Funding available for human-centered AI projects

K4A is a partner in the HumanE AI network of excellence which has been running a program of micro-projects and there is a potential to link this with the Network for AI and Knowledge for Sustainable Development (NAiXUS) established jointly by the International Research Centre on AI under the Auspices of UNESCO, the DataPop Alliance, Knowledge 4 All Foundation, ELLIS Alicante UNIT and Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br). The Humane AI has funds reserved to finance the involvement of external partners and this call is concerned with micro-projects that would like to leverage these funds to include NAiXUS partners. Check here for the opportunity.

Human AI net Micro-Projects Collaboration Network

September 21, 2022

General, HumanAI

The periodic technical report for the HumaneAI Network successfully submitted to EU reviewers

Chatila Raja, Sorbonne University - European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Yvonne Rogers, University College London - European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

After the HumaneAI project setup phase, initiating the internal and external collaboration mechanisms the first 18 months were focused on engaging with the research questions posed in the proposal within WPs 1-5 and conducting a series of concrete high-impact activities to connect to the community. Nearly 70 micro projects spanning the large majority of the project partners have been initiated resulting in 82 project publications, incl. Nature, PNAS, Phys.Rev, Artificial Intelligence etc papers.

A major result of this work has been the updated research agenda which includes a novel conceptual framework for human-AI collaboration, a notion of shared representations centered around of narratives and the expansion of the definition of AI trustworthiness and explainability in terms of human-computer interaction (systems that humans (both individually and as a society) feel they understand and are comfortable trusting rather than systems that “only” fulfill certain hard technical specification).

June 6, 2022

HumanAI

Organizing the Dagstuhl Workshop on Human-Centered AI Perspectives

Dagstuhl Report

Frank van Harmelen, Wendy Mackay and K4A director John Shawe-Taylor with the help of Virginia Dignum co-organized and ran the Human-Centred AI Perspectives Workshop at Dagstuhl from 26 June to 1 July, 2022, with 22 participants.

Society is undergoing a revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), with huge potential benefits, but also major risks for individuals and society. Increasingly, trust in the development, deployment, and the use of AI and autonomous systems concerns not only the technology’s inherent properties, but also the socio-technical systems of which they are part of, that is, the people, organisations, and societal environments in which systems are developed, implemented, and used. Currently, major challenges include the lack of fundamental theory and models to analyse and ensure that systems are aligned with human values and ethical principles, accountable, open to inspection, and understandable to diverse stakeholders. Furthermore, there is no doubt that this technological shift will have revolutionary effects on human life and society.

The goal of this Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops was to contribute to shape that revolution, to provide the scientific and technological foundations for designing and deploying AI systems that work in partnership with human beings, to enhance human capabilities rather than replace human intelligence. Fundamentally new solutions are needed for core research problems in AI and human-computer interaction (HCI), especially to help people understand actions recommended or performed by AI systems and to facilitate meaningful interaction between humans and AI systems.

June 26 – July 1 , 2022, Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 22262

April 15, 2022

HumanAI

Making artificial intelligence human-centric at the first post-pandemic HumaneAI-Net consortium meeting in person

This was the EU-funded HumanE-AI-Net project meeting which brought together leading European research centres, universities and industrial enterprises into a network of centres of excellence. Leading global artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories 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.

HumaneAI-Net meeting, April 12-14, 2022 Venice, Italy

October 14, 2019

HumanAI

Setting up a European Network of AI Excellence Centres

The HumaneAI project, delivering the roadmap for a new science in Artificial Intelligence, has met in Den Haag, the Netherlands in order to understand the scope for the H2020 call on European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres.

The Humane AI 3rd meeting was held on 10-11 October 2019 in Den Haag with all partners attending.

September 30, 2019

HumanAI

HumaneAI interview series: Ville Mäkelä, LMU München

My blue sky project for AI is to make better humans, to improve the quality of life, to enable humans to do things that they perhaps couldn’t do before, to make people better than the best people out there currently.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence #humaneAI #responsibleAI @EU_Commission #videolectures #humanrobotinteraction

September 25, 2019

HumanAI

HumaneAI interview series: Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR

My bluesky project is to have the possibility of AI enhancing user experience.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence #humaneAI #responsibleAI @EU_Commission #videolectures #humanrobotinteraction

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