Umea University leads the first tasks of Trustworthy AI (UMU presentation)
Umeå University – UMU (Sweden) (www.umu.se ) – is honoured to be a partner of the Trustworthy AI project and to lead its first intellectual output. UMU will contribute to the project’s goal to expand the teaching of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education, with special regards to the principles and values laid out in the EU’s guidelines of trustworthy AI.
UMU was founded in 1965 in Sweden and it is the fifth oldest university in the country. Today, it enjoys a strong international and multicultural environment with more than 32 000 students and 4300 employees. The university conducts research on a wide range of topics in the area of Computing Science and offers courses and study programmes at the bachelor, master and doctoral level. Each year, over 2000 students take part in at least one course at the Department of Computing Science.
UMU joined the Trustworthy AI project through the Responsible AI research group (www.umu.se/en/research/groups/responsible-artificial-intelligence/). The group is established at the Department of Computing Science of the University and it counts roughly 120 employees from more than 20 countries. The Responsible AI group research focuses on the ethical and societal impact of AI through the development of tools and methodologies to design, monitor, and develop trustworthy AI systems and applications. Within the Trustworthy AI project, UMU is tasked with leading the first Intellectual Output: developing a Teaching Framework for AI in Higher Education. This framework will be based on the framework created by the European Commission and other highly relevant stakeholders (https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/ai-alliance-consultation) on what reliable and ethical AI should look like. The framework will present an integrated approach to teaching AI, including its social, ethical, and economic aspects, but also (and perhaps most importantly) the principles and learning strategies needed for higher-education students to obtain all the necessary competencies for the development of trustworthy AI.
Through the Trustworthy AI project, UMU also aims to obtain both a deep understanding of the educational aspects crucial for trustworthy AI development and participating in the production of high-quality educational material that can be incorporated into its own education programmes. Trustworthy AI is a highly relevant project for UMU, being it at the intersection between AI and its ethical, social and legal implications, which is one of the core focusses of our research.
Some other initiatives include:
AI4EU (https://www.ai4eu.eu/): Europe’s first on-demand AI platform and ecosystem (Horizon 2020 Project), where UMU’s contribution is the design of a development methodology for AI to create systems aligned with European values;
Humane AI net (https://www.humane-ai.eu/): European human-centered AI initiative (Horizon 2020 Project), empowering European member states to build human-centred artificial intelligence and achieve the goals set by the European Commission in its European approach to artificial intelligence;
WASP-AS (https://wasp-sweden.org/): Sweden’s largest strategic recruitment project for researchers, educators and faculty in autonomous systems and software development (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Project).
We are looking forward to the collaboration within the project and the development of a comprehensive Teaching Framework for Trustworthy AI in Higher Education!
Some other initiatives at UMU include:
AI4EU (https://www.ai4eu.eu/): Europe’s first on-demand AI platform and ecosystem (Horizon 2020 Project), where UMU’s contribution is the design of a development methodology for AI to create systems aligned with European values;
Humane AI net (https://www.humane-ai.eu/): European human-centered AI initiative (Horizon 2020 Project), empowering European member states to build human-centred artificial intelligence and achieve the goals set by the European Commission in its European approach to artificial intelligence;
WASP-AS (https://wasp-sweden.org/): Sweden’s largest strategic recruitment project for researchers, educators and faculty in autonomous systems and software development (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Project).
