FAITH AT Madeira Digital Transformation Week 2024
Prof. Dimitris Fotiadis, project coordinator, attended the 2024 Madeira Digital Transformation Week (20-24 June 2024) . Prof. Fotiadis gave a presentation on Enhancing Trust in AI Across Critical Application Domains :
The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in critical domains presents challenges in ensuring trustworthiness and adherence to ethical standards. Although the existing AI based systems offer unprecedented capabilities and efficiencies, they also face multiple risks which can undermine public trust, including: (i) safety, (ii) explainability and interpretability, (iii) fairness and harmful bias, (iv) accountability and transparency, (v) security and resiliency, (vi) privacy, and (vii) validity and reliability. The latter highlights the need for the development of robust and easy to utilize trustworthy AI assessment frameworks to precisely assess the risks of AI systems and ensure that they operate within ethical boundaries across critical sectors, such as, media, transportation, and education, among others. This involves not only the implementation of stringent data security protocols but also the development of protocols to ensure that AI decisions are transparent and equitable. The integration of AI systems within complex human-centric environments requires additional emphasis on interoperability and adaptability so that they can function more effectively. To effectively mitigate these risks and to foster trust in AI systems, the EU funded project FAITH introduces an AI Trustworthiness Assessment Framework which is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Through a series of large-scale pilots across critical sectors, the project aims to demonstrate the impact of its framework to ensure that AI systems meet the highest standards of trust and reliability.