R3AI: Shifting Paradigms for a Robust, Reasoning, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence and its Adoption

R3AI：稳健、推理和负责任的人工智能的转变范式及其采用

• 批准号: CFREF-2022-00051
• 负责人: Hébert, MarieJosée
• 金额: $ 137.41万
• 依托单位: Université de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada First Research Excellence Fund
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=760806
• 关键词: R3AI; Shifting; Paradigms; Robust; Reasoning

In order to advance Canadian priorities, the R3AI program led by IVADO will develop and apply a much needed novel artificial intelligence (AI) that is Robust, Reasoning and Responsible.Why? AI is predicted to have major and increasing impacts on our social systems, environment, and economies. However, two major obstacles prevent Canada and other countries from maximizing its positive impacts, calling for a paradigm shift. The first hurdle is the insufficient robustness of current AI when deployed in uncertain "out-of-distribution" settings. The second issue is the misalignment between the deployment and adoption of AI and the ethical, organizational, social, cultural, and legal factors that frame the way it should be implemented.How? With the academic and institutional support of UdeM, HEC, Poly, ULaval, and McGill, R3AI will bring world-leading multidisciplinary researchers and implementation experts to tackle these challenges. The first will be addressed by fostering the collaboration of AI and cognitive neuroscience experts to better understand and narrow the gap between current AI and human intelligence. The second will be overcome by developing the science of AI adoption, with particular attention put towards ensuring that AI is deployed responsibly and that AI innovations are aligned with equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) objectives and are moreover co-built in real-life situations with end users, members of underrepresented groups, and Indigenous Peoples.What? To mobilize R3AI in sectors of strategic importance for Canada, IVADO will implement the new AI design and adoption strategies in three key priority sectors in which the 5 partners have major strengths: (1) Useful New Molecules - reduce the time and cost of discovering new drugs, e.g. those needed to fight future pandemics and antimicrobial resistance, as well as help to discover the materials required to achieve carbon neutrality; (2) Environmental Emergencies - decipher and predict biodiversity data to mitigate climate change and improve global health; and (3) Health Systems - develop predictive, explainable, and causal health models generalizable across communities and organizations that will have critical outcomes for patients and health systems. R3AI will provide solutions to logistics and supply chain challenges cross-cutting these 3 priority sectors.

为了推进加拿大的优先事项，由IVADO领导的R3 AI计划将开发和应用一种急需的新型人工智能（AI），这种人工智能是鲁棒的，推理的和负责任的。预计人工智能将对我们的社会系统、环境和经济产生重大且越来越大的影响。然而，有两个主要障碍使加拿大和其他国家无法最大限度地发挥其积极影响，因此需要进行范式转变。第一个障碍是当前人工智能在部署在不确定的“分布外”环境中时鲁棒性不足。第二个问题是人工智能的部署和采用与道德、组织、社会、文化和法律的因素之间的不一致，这些因素决定了人工智能的实施方式。在UdeM，HEC，Poly，ULaval和麦吉尔的学术和机构支持下，R3 AI将带来世界领先的多学科研究人员和实施专家来应对这些挑战。第一个问题将通过促进人工智能和认知神经科学专家的合作来解决，以更好地理解和缩小当前人工智能和人类智能之间的差距。第二个问题将通过发展人工智能采用的科学来克服，特别注意确保人工智能的部署是负责任的，人工智能创新与公平，多样性和包容性（EDI）目标保持一致，并且在现实生活中与最终用户，代表性不足的群体成员和土著人民共同构建。为了在对加拿大具有战略重要性的部门动员R3 AI，IVADO将在五个合作伙伴具有主要优势的三个关键优先部门实施新的AI设计和采用战略：（1）有用的新分子-减少发现新药物的时间和成本，例如对抗未来流行病和抗微生物耐药性所需的药物，以及帮助发现实现碳中和所需的材料;（2）环境紧急情况-破译和预测生物多样性数据，以缓解气候变化和改善全球健康;（3）卫生系统-开发可在社区和组织中推广的预测性、可解释性和因果性的健康模型，这些模型将对患者和卫生系统产生重要影响。R3 AI将为这三个优先领域的物流和供应链挑战提供解决方案。