Towards Value-Aware AI

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Value-Aware Artificial Intelligence

Values guide, justify, and explain behaviour. Ensuring AI systems are aligned with human values has been raised as a core problem for AI.
By putting moral considerations at the core of the AI system itself, we contribute to making AI more trustworthy.

Objectives

VALAWAI aims at developing value-aware AI systems; that is, AI systems that are able to understand and abide by a value system and explain its own behaviour or understand the behaviour of others in terms of a value system.

NEUROSCIENCE

Develop quantitative measures of levels of awareness based on neuroscience.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Implement a general operational model for artificial awareness.

VALUE-AWARE AI TOOLS

Prototype, engineer and release a toolbox for value-aware AI.

Societal Impact

VALAWAI will apply Value-Aware AI to three challenging application domains in domains very much need a moral dimension and adding value-awareness would therefore offer a clear and strong added value for their users.

Given their societal impact, these application domains have a high potential for innovation.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Protect individual users and our society from malicious media content.

SOCIAL ROBOTS

Make social robots more trustworthy.

MEDICAL PROTOCOLS

Deal more confidently with moral dilemmas in critical situations.

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VALAWAI is a multidisciplinary project using neuroscience, robotics, computer science, and engineering.