The FAIR – Future Artificial Intelligence Research Foundation is a non-profit foundation whose main purpose is to implement the interventions financed under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), and any subsequent funding, in the artificial intelligence field.
The EU-funded CREXDATA project plans to develop a platform for real-time critical situation management, including flexible action planning and agile decision-making. CREXDATA will produce the algorithmic apparatus, software architecture and tools for gathering federated predictive analytics and forecasting in the face of uncertainty. The proposed framework will facilitate proactive decision-making, by providing highly accurate and transparent short- and long-term forecasts, explainable via advanced visual analytics and accurate, real-time, augmented reality facilities.
The recent wave of machine-learning (ML) based Artificial-Intelligence (AI) technologies is having a huge societal and economic impact, with AI being (often silently) embedded in most of our everyday experiences (such as virtual assistants, tracking devices, social media, recommender systems). The research community (and society in general) has already realised that the current centralised approach to AI, whereby our personal data are centrally collected and processed through opaque ML systems (“black-boxes”), is not an acceptable and sustainable model in the long run.
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.
