ELSA: European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI

为了加强欧洲在安全和可靠人工智能技术方面的领导地位，我们提议建立一个虚拟的安全和可靠人工智能卓越中心，以解决阻碍人工智能技术部署的主要挑战。这些重大挑战本质上是根本性的。以可持续的方式解决这些问题需要以卓越的科学和严谨的方法为基础的灯塔。我们将制定一项战略研究议程，以“技术稳健性和安全性”、“隐私保护技术和基础设施”以及“人类机构和监督”为重点的研究项目为支持。此外，我们专注于检测、预防和减轻威胁，并通过三大挑战实现从伤害中恢复：“鲁棒性保证和认证”、“大规模私密和强大的协作学习”和“人在环决策：集成治理以确保有意义的监督”，涵盖6个用例：健康、自动驾驶、机器人、网络安全、多媒体和文档智能。在整个项目中，我们寻求将强大的技术方法与有意义和有效的治理架构支持的法律和道德原则相结合，以培育和维持服务和促进欧洲基本价值观的人工智能技术的开发和部署。我们的倡议建立并扩展了国际公认的，非常成功的，全面运作的卓越网络ELLIS（欧洲学习和智能系统实验室）。我们建立ELSA的三个支柱：研究项目，一套研究单位和博士/博士后项目，从而连接了一个由100多个组织和337多名ELLIS研究员和学者（113 ERC资助）组成的网络，致力于共同的卓越标准。我们不仅将建立一个虚拟的卓越中心，而且我们所有的活动也将是包容的，对人工智能研究人员和行业合作伙伴的投入、互动和协作开放，以推动整个领域向前发展。

In order to reinforce European leadership in safe and secure AI technology, we are proposing a virtual center of excellence on safe and secure AI that will address major challenges hampering the deployment of AI technology. These grand challenges are fundamental in nature. Addressing them in a sustainable manner requires a lighthouse rooted in scientific excellence and rigorous methods. We will develop a strategic research agenda which is supported by research programmes that focus on “technical robustness and safety”, “privacy preserving techniques and infrastructures” and “human agency and oversight”. Furthermore, we focus our efforts to detect, prevent and mitigate threats and enable recovery from harm by 3 grand challenges: “Robustness guarantees and certification”, “Private and robust collaborative learning at scale” and “Human-in-the-loop decision making: Integrated governance to ensure meaningful oversight” that cut across 6 use cases: health, autonomous driving, robotics, cyber security, multi-media, and document intelligence. Throughout our project, we seek to integrate robust technical approaches with legal and ethical principles supported by meaningful and effective governance architectures to nurture and sustain the development and deployment of AI technology that serves and promotes foundational European values. Our initiative builds on and expands the internationally recognized, highly successful and fully operational network of excellence ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). We build ELSA on its 3 pillars: research programmes, a set of research units, and a PhD/postdoc programme, thereby connecting a network of over 100 organizations and more than 337 ELLIS fellows and scholars (113 ERC grants) committed to shared standards of excellence. We will not only establish a virtual center of excellence, but all our activities will be also inclusive and open to input, interactions and collaboration of AI researchers and industrial partners in order to drive the entire field forward.