ELIAS: European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability

我们生活在一个关键的历史时刻，面临着巨大的挑战，从气候变化到能源危机。ELIAS的出现源于这样一种信念，即人工智能将成为帮助我们应对这些挑战的关键学科。与此同时，人工智能的发展需要解决深刻的伦理和社会问题。在基础研究方面，ELIAS将解决人工智能如何降低计算成本、如何为政策决策对社会的影响建模以及如何影响个人等关键科学问题。ELIAS将努力将学术界的基础研究与工业界的应用研究进行深度整合。ELIAS建立并扩展了非常成功和国际公认的欧洲学习和智能系统实验室（ELLIS）。ELIAS将进一步发展卓越标准和ELLIS的支柱，并实施行动，支持人工智能研究人员和处于职业生涯不同阶段的年轻人才。此外，ELIAS将发展科学创业的轨道，目的是在科学创新和商业的交汇处吸引和授权人才，并建立原创的人工智能解决方案，为我们的地球走向可持续的长期未来，为一个有凝聚力的社会做出贡献，并尊重个人权利。ELIAS的结果将使欧洲成为人工智能研究的领导者，在人工智能研究中，对环境、社会和个人的影响是发展过程中不可或缺的考虑因素。我们将根据关键指标来衡量这一努力的成功，包括新的跨机构合作的数量、跨学科合作的数量、行业学术伙伴关系的数量、在顶级会议和期刊上的出版物数量、专利数量以及导致部署技术的项目数量。

We live in a crucial historical moment, with tremendous challenges ahead, from climate change to the energy crisis. ELIAS emerges from the belief that AI will be a key discipline to help us tackle these challenges. At the same time, the development of AI entails deep ethical and societal concerns that need to be addressed. As for fundamental research, ELIAS will address key scientific questions about how AI can reduce computational costs, serves to model effects of policy decisions on society, and impacts individuals. ELIAS will strive for a deep integration of the fundamental research that takes place in academia and the more applications-focused research from industry. ELIAS builds on and expands the highly successful and internationally recognized European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). ELIAS will further develop the excellence criteria and the pillars in ELLIS and implement actions that will support AI researchers and young talents at different stages of their careers. Furthermore, ELIAS will develop a Sciencentrepreneurship track, with the purpose of attracting and empowering talents at the interface of scientific innovation and business and establish original AI solutions that move towards a sustainable long-term future for our planet, contribute to a cohesive society, and respect individual rights. The outcome of ELIAS will be to establish Europe as a leader in AI research in which impact on the environment, society and the individual are integral considerations during development. We will measure the success of this endeavor in terms of key indicators, including the number of new cross-institutional collaborations, the number of cross-disciplinary collaborations, the number of industry academic partnerships, publications in top conferences and journals, patents, and the number of projects that have resulted in deployed technologies.