Creating a European AI Powerhouse: A Strategic Research Agenda from the European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence (ELISE) consortium

, 2021.

Abstract

ELISE’s vision is of a Powerhouse of European AI. Motivated by the ambition to establish European leadership in AI and create a new generation of trustworthy AI systems, ELISE will build a network of the continent’s leading AI researchers. Together, this network will pursue pan-European research collaborations that tackle issues of pressing scientific and social concern.

This Strategic Research Agenda sets out ELISE’s roadmap for creating AI technologies that are technically advanced, robust in deployment and aligned with social values. It outlines how technological advances can contribute to European policy ambitions for AI, and the support needed from technologists and policymakers to maintain European leadership in AI.

This document was produced with support from Jessica Montgomery (University of Cambridge), Neil Lawrence (University of Cambridge), Samuel Kaski (Aalto University), Arnold Smeulders (University of Amsterdam), Sami Heinäsmäki (Aalto University), and the leaders of ELLIS and ELISE research programmes.