#IA Track - Enjeux sociétaux de l'IA

1. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825619
www.ai4eu.eu
Arnaud GOTLIEB
Simula Research Laboratory
Oslo, Norway
Paris Open Source Summit
10 Dec. 2019, Paris

2. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
AI4EU is a collaborative
H2020 Project
1.1.2019 – 31.12.2021
• Mobilize the entire European AI
community on a collaborative European AI
Platform
• 81 Partners (60 European leading Research
Institutes), 21 Countries,
Lead by Thales
• 20MEUR Budget, 3M EUR Cascade funding
with Open Calls
• Mostly based on open source actors and
tech., e.g.,
Smile, Drupal, AcumosAI, Qwant
What is AI4EU?

3. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
• Build a sustainable Open AI On-Demand-Platform to make available expertise, knowledge, algorithms
and tools to all users from all sectors.
• Bring all AI stakeholders together by organising major community events, by setting up the Open AI On-
Demand-Platform and by founding the AI4EU Association.
• Position the European AI stage as a leader thanks to an AI fully embedded in human values and ethics.
• Fill important technology gaps through dedicated research, innovation and scale up start ups efforts.
• Boost AI Research. Reinforce European excellence and leading position worldwide in major AI research
and application domains.
• Draw a strong and comprehensive Strategic Agenda for European AI research based on engagement
with the community.
How?
A European Ambition

4. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
Platform providing services for many actors
Industry: Large companies
Startups
PPP Initiatives
Researchers
Developers
Teachers/Educators
Society
Service Layer
AI4EU
platform
Data sets
for AI AI
Algorithms
& Tools
AI
Applications
Governance
Structure
Resources for
sustainability:
funding,
business
model
AI
Knowledge
(Experts,
Facts,
Skills,..)
IPR
Management
Training /
Education
Material

5. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
Timeline

6. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
www.ai4eu.eu

7. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM

8. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
AI4EU
platform
AI4Citizen
SAP
AI4Robotics
ABB Robotics
AI4Industry
Siemens AG
AI4Healthcare
NEHS
AI4Media
Interdigital (anc.
TEC)
AI4Agriculture
ATOS,
Smartrural
AI4IoT
Telenor
AI4Cyber-
security
Thales
8 pilots in different AI-prioritized domains
An AI-powered Personal Assistant
for Public Services
Intelligent Performance
Analytics for Industrial Robots
AI-Driven Digital Companion for
Production Facility
Improve quality constancy of
medical images reports
AI-Based 3D-Generation of
Animated Video
Crop quality
assessment through
computer vision
Air Quality
Monitoring
AI-driven attack
learning

9. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
Based on 5 research priorities
HUMAN
CENTERED
AI
Explainable
Verifiable
CollaborativeIntegrative
Physical
Feeding into the Strategic Research and
Innovation Agenda
Based on the Human-Centered AI Paradigm
AI4EU Ethical Observatory so that AI is used
in fair, transparent and responsible

10. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
Filling technology gaps

11. AI4EU Open Calls Strategy
Call for Solutions
Individuals
● a group of at least 2 individuals
● Up to €20K equity free
● 3-6 months support program
● Up to 50 beneficiaries in 2 open calls
● First call Q1 2020
Scaleups
● Addressed to scaleups
● Up to €180K equity free
● 9 months support program
● Up to 20 beneficiaries in one open call
● First call Q3 2020
Call for Challenges
● European organization which would like to address an AI
Challenge, especially: SMEs, Corporates, EU Projects,
Non-profit organizations or AI4EU Partners
● The selected Challenges will be solved in the call for
solutions
● Should provide the necessary assets to solve the
Challenge and technical support the beneficiaries of the
call for solutions
● Call open from Q1 2020 to Q4 2020
Goal: Populate and promote the adoption of AI4EU platform
€3 million in funding

12. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
• To stimulate reflection, discussion and due consideration of ELSEC-AI issues within
the EU AI community (researchers, educators and practitioners) and with the
European Parliament, member states, and AI industry.
• To provide resources to educate the general EU public more accurately about
state of the art in AI.
• To survey legal issues for the deployment of AI systems in the EU and identify
sources of expertise for industries applying AI.
• To identify/elicit and monitor values and societal acceptance of decisions and
policies.
• To develop methodological guidelines for the integration of ELSEC considerations
in the design and development of AI systems.
• To avoid negative bias, such as on gender or other forms of discrimination, which
implicitly play a role in AI decision systems.
Tackling Ethical, Legal, Socio-Economical & Cultural issues
AI4EU Ethical Observatory

13. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
• Human Brain Simulation Platform
• Copernicus Data Platform
• Beat (Idiap) Platform
• Bonseye
• Fiona Platform
• DIH’s Platforms
• ...and more to come.
Interconnection with many leading platforms in a seamless way
The AI4EU Platform will seamlessly interconnect
with a large number of other Platforms :

14. BUILDING THE EUROPEAN AI ON-DEMAND PLATFORM
ICT-49-2020: Artificial Intelligence on demand platform
Specific Challenge: …Building notably on Europe's Scientific and Technology strengths in the field, the supported
activities should reinforce industrial competitiveness across all sectors including for SMEs and non-tech industries and help
address societal challenges (e.g. ageing, transport, gender equality). The ambition is to bring AI technologies and
resources to integrators and innovators in all sectors and actively engage with a wide user community, to foster
adoption of AI, via use-cases experiments.
AI-on-demand platform: consolidation and exploitation –
Scope: This topic builds on the AI-on-demand-platform funded in ICT26-2018-20, a reference access point gathering and
providing access to AI-related knowledge, algorithms and tools and access to related infrastructures, equipment, and
data resources, offering also experts support to potential users of AI in order to facilitate the integration of AI into
applications, making it a compelling solution for users, especially from non-tech sectors. This activity aims at
consolidating the eco-system by bringing in a larger user community, especially from the non-tech sector, and by
reinforcing the service layer of the platform. At this stage, it will be particularly important to refine mechanisms to ensure
the platform's long-term sustainability. …
Innovation Actions: Budget 20MEUR (4 - 5 Projects Funded)
Deadline: 22 Apr. 2020

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