ABOUT PROJECT
CONCEPT
The ALFIE project will create an ecosystem that combines advanced AI technology with ethical standards, ensuring that the resulting AI systems are not only high-performing but also fair, transparent, and free from bias. The project focuses on building two key components:
- EthiTech Dialogue Hub (ETD-Hub): A platform for dialogue and collaboration where AI experts, policymakers, legal professionals, and citisens can discuss and shape the ethical and legal aspects of AI. This platform will serve as a hub for exchanging ideas, understanding societal needs, and defining policies that ensure AI technologies are used responsibly.
- AutoML Platform: A platform designed to allow users to easily create machine learning models, even without technical expertise. This platform will prioritise ethics and compliance with European Union regulations, helping ensure that AI models are fair, transparent, and trustworthy. The platform will automate much of the machine learning process, from selecting algorithms to tuning models, making AI more accessible to a broader audience.
ALFIE’s system architecture is based on a “Lego-like” modular approach that ensures future expandability of the system while at the same time enabling transferability and replicability in different cities and organizations across the EU (and beyond).
OVERVIEW
Understanding AI’s Impact:
- Assess the real-world benefits and limitations of current AI deployments in Europe.
- Analyse how these deployments align with ethical principles for trustworthy AI.
Foresight and Management:
- Enhance our ability to anticipate and address the long-term opportunities and challenges of AI and related technologies.
Policy Recommendations:
- Provide evidence-based recommendations for European policies on research, innovation, and other key areas.
- Ensure Europe can harness AI’s potential while mitigating risks, aligning with human rights and European values.
- Strengthen Europe’s capacity to guide AI development and deployment in a responsible manner.
APPROACH
ALFIE, short for “Assessment of Learning technologies and Frameworks for Intelligent and Ethical AI” bridges the gap between ethical considerations and cutting-edge AI technologies. The initiative’s core comprises two integral components:
ETD-Hub (EthiTech Dialogue Hub): A multidisciplinary platform enabling dialogue among citizens, policymakers, AI developers, and legal experts. It focuses on formulating policy recommendations and fostering collaboration on ethical AI practices.
AutoML Platform: A user-friendly, natural language-driven system that automates the creation of AI models. It ensures compliance with ethical and legal guidelines while making AI development accessible to non-experts.
These components form a bi-directional feedback system where insights from ETD-Hub refine AI models on the AutoML platform, and implementation results feed back into ethical and regulatory discussions.
OBJECTIVES
- To strengthen EU capacity on the implications that AI has in modern lifestyle through skill enhancement, policy development and network efficacy.
- To conduct comprehensive analyses of existing AI deployment in Europe to highlight their impacts, capabilities and limitations through the lens of policies and regulations
- To enhance policies and suggest best practices focused on promoting ethical AI
- To develop ethical, trustworthy and compliant AI models tailored on people needs
- To design an accessible, trustworthy, and democratised AI platform
- To elevate public awareness regarding AI