European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI

为了加强欧洲在安全可靠的人工智能技术方面的领导地位，我们提议建立一个安全可靠的人工智能虚拟卓越中心，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一个以科学卓越和严格方法为基础的灯塔。我们将制定一个战略性研究议程，该议程由重点关注“技术稳健性和安全性”、“隐私保护技术和基础设施”以及“人类代理和监督”的研究计划支持。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”，“大规模私人和强大的协作学习”和“人在回路决策：综合治理以确保有意义的监督”，这些挑战跨越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法律的和道德原则相结合，并由有意义和有效的治理架构支持，以培育和维持人工智能技术的开发和部署，从而服务和促进欧洲的基本价值观。我们的计划建立在国际公认的、非常成功的、全面运作的ELLIS（欧洲学习和智能系统实验室）网络的基础上，并将其扩展。我们建立在艾尔莎的3个支柱：研究计划，一套研究单位，博士/博士后计划，从而连接超过100个组织和超过337 ELLIS研究员和学者（113 ERC赠款）致力于共同的卓越标准的网络。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都将对人工智能研究人员和工业合作伙伴的输入，互动和合作开放，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, cybersecurity, 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