During the first year of its mandate, the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) worked on two main deliverables:
Deliverable 1: Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
The document puts forward a human-centric approach on AI and list 7 key requirements that AI systems should meet in order to be Trustworthy.
Deliverable 2: Policy and Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI
Building on its first deliverable, the group has put forward 33 recommendations that can guide Trustworthy AI towards sustainability, growth and competitiveness, as well as inclusion – while empowering, benefiting and protecting human beings.
The results of the work of the AI HLEG were presented at the first European AI Assembly in June 2019. Following the Assembly, the European Commission extended the group’s mandate for one more year. This extended mandate allowed the group to increase the granularity of its work and pilot the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI . The AI HLEG closed its mandate in July 2020 with the presentation of two more deliverables:
Deliverable 3: The final Assessment List for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI)
A practical tool that translates the Ethics Guidelines into an accessible and dynamic (self-assessment) checklist. The checklist can be used by developers and deployers of AI who want to implement the key requirements in practice. This new list is available as a prototype web based tool and in PDF format.
Deliverable 4: Sectoral Considerations on the Policy and Investment Recommendations
The document explores the possible implementation of the recommendations, previously published by the group, in three specific areas of application: Public Sector, Healthcare and Manufacturing & the Internet of Things.
AI HLEG and European AI Alliance
The overall work of the AI HLEG has been central to the development of the Commission’s approach to Artificial Intelligence. The concept of Trustworthiness and the seven key requirements, introduced by the Ethics Guidelines are guiding the upcoming legislative steps in AI. The group’s recommendations have served as resources for policymaking initiatives taken by the Commission and its Member States. Among those initiatives, there was the Communication on Building Trust in Human Centric Artificial Intelligence, the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence: a European approach to excellence and trust and the updated Coordinated plan on AI (expected to be presented in the first quarter of 2021).
The AI HLEG has worked closely with the European community of AI stakeholders through the AI Alliance. The European AI Alliance is an online forum with over 4000 members representing academia, business and industry, civil society as well as EU citizens and policymakers. Through a number of ad hoc consultations, the members of the AI Alliance offered detailed feedback for the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. Moreover, a set of materials such as policy documents, academic papers and discussions published on the forum, helped document the other deliverables of the AI HLEG.
In the first European AI Alliance Assembly in June 2019, 500 members of the forum met in a live event that engaged the community into a direct feedback provision to the European Commission’s policymaking process on AI. As the AI HLEG closed its mandate in July 2020, the community of the AI Alliance continues its activity and in October 2020 over 1900 participants joined online the second European AI Alliance Assembly, to discuss the main findings of the Public Consultation on the Commission’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence and its future perspectives in building a European approach for excellence and trust.
The Members of the AI High Level Expert Group
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Pekka Ala-Pietilä
Chairman of the Board of packaging company Huhtamaki, media company Sanoma and Netcompany as well as a member of the Supervisory Board of SA - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Thomas Metzinger
Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, representing the European University Association - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Loubna Bouarfa
Machine learning expert - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Mark Coeckelbergh
Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Fanny Hidvegi
European Policy Manager, Access Now - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Wilhelm Bauer
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Joanna Goodey
Head of the Freedoms and Justice Department at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Ieva Martinkenaite
Vice-President, Telenor Group - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Ursula Pachl
Deputy Director General, BEUC - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Leo Kärkkäinen
Leader of Deep Learning Research Group, Nokia Bell Labs - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Philipp Slusallek
Scientific Director, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Urs Bergmann
Research lead and machine learning expert, Zalando SE - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Maria Bielikova
Professor in program and information systems at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Christoph Peylo
Global Head of Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl
Director General of DIGITALEUROPE - the leading association for the digital technology industry in Europe. - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Karen Yeung
Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Nozha Boujemaa
Senior Research Scientist at Inria - Former AI HLEG Member (June 2018 - January 2019)
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Yann Bonnet
Former Secretary General, French Digital Council - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Stéphan Brunessaux
Senior Expert in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Airbus Defence and Space - AI HLEG Member since November 2018
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Raja Chatila
Professor of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at Sorbonne University - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Virginia Dignum
Professor of Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence at University of Umeå - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Luciano Floridi
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford - Former AI HLEG Member (June 2018 to June 2020)
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Jean-Francois Gagné
CEO of Element AI - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Chiara Giovannini
Senior Manager, Policy & Innovation and Deputy Secretary General, ANEC - AI HLEG Member since November 2018
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Sami Haddadin
Director of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Gry Hasselbalch
Researcher and independent data ethics advisor - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Fredrik Heintz
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Eric Hilgendorf
Professor of criminal law, criminal procedure and legal philosophy - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Klaus Höckner
Member of the board of the Austrian Association Supporting the Blind and Visually Impaired - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière
Deputy CEO Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Orange - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Sabine Theresia Köszegi
Professor of Labour Science and Organisation - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Robert Kroplewski
Solicitor, law of new technologies - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Elisabeth Ling
Managing Director, Researcher Products and Research Metrics, Elsevier - AI HLEG Member since January 2019
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Pierre Lucas
Manager, Orgalime - the European Technology Industries Association - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Thiébaut Weber
ETUC Confederal Secretary - Former AI HLEG Member (June 2018 - August 2019)
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Raoul Mallart
Chief Technology Officer, Sigfox - Former AI HLEG Member (June 2018 - December 2018)
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Catelijne Muller
Expert and Consultant on Artificial Intelligence & Society, EESC - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Markus Noga
Senior Vice President of Machine Learning, SAP - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Cécile Wendling
Head of Foresight, AXA - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Barry O’Sullivan
Chair of Constraint Programming, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Lorena Jaume Palasi
Executive Director, AlgorithmWatch - Former AI HLEG Member (June 2018 - October 2018)
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Nicolas Petit
Professor of Law, Liege University - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Iris Plöger
Member of the Executive Board, Federation of German Industries - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Giuseppe Stefano Quintarelli
Chairman of the Steering Committee, Agency for Digital Italy - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Andrea Renda
Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy, Centre for European Policy Studies - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Francesca Rossi
Research Staff Member, IBM Research AI - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Cristina San José
Chief Data Strategist, Santander Group - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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George Sharkov
Cyber Expert, European DIGITAL SME Alliance - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Françoise Soulié Fogelman
Consultant in Data Mining & Artificial Intelligence - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Saskia Steinacker
Vice President and Global Lead Digital Transformation, Bayer - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Reinhard Stolle
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, BMW - Former AI HLEG Member (June 2018 - September 2018)
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Jaan Tallinn
Founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Thierry Tingaud
President of STMicroelectronics France - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Jakob Uszkoreit
Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Google - AI HLEG Member since June 2018
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Aimee Van Wynsberghe
Assistant Professor in Ethics and Technology, TU Delft - AI HLEG Member since June 2018