AI-CODE - AI services for COntinuous trust in emerging Digital Environmentsbroad
AI-CODE · Horizon Europe grant · 2023-12-01–2026-11-30
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About the data
Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT · scheme HORIZON-IA · topic HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-05. CORDIS record →
Objective
The media sector is exposed to and undergoing continuous innovations that occur at a pace never seen before and have a non-negligible impact on citizens, democracy and a society as whole. A significant booster becomes a generative Artificial Intelligence, which already plays and will continue to play a critical role (in a positive as well as negative meaning) in creating and spreading information. Especially in next-generation social media, which refer to the anticipated evolution towards more AI-based decentralised and immersive virtual environments (like fediverses and metaverses), generative AI can become the most prominent enabler of disinformation growth accompanied by a lack of trusted information. Media professionals are not, however, currently well-equipped with supporting tools nor knowledge to operate in such already emerging environments.As a result, there is a tremendous need for innovative (AI-based) solutions ensuring media freedom and pluralism, delivering credible and truthful information as well as combating highly disinformative content. The main goal of the AI-CODE project is to evolve state-of-the-art research results (tools, technologies, and know-how) from the past and ongoing EU-funded research projects focused on disinformation to a novel ecosystem of services that will proactively support media professionals in trusted information production through AI. First, the project aims to identify, analyse, and understand future developments of next-generation social media in the context of rapid development of generative Artificial Intelligence and how such a combination can impact the (dis)information space. Second, the project aims to provide media professionals with novel AI-based services to coach them how to work in emerging digital environments and how to utilise generative AI effectively and credibly, to detect new forms of content manipulation, as well as to assess the reputation and credibility of sources and their content.
Beneficiaries (16)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DS TECH SRL | IT | coordinator | €690,438 | Yes |
| EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR PARTICIPATORY MEDIA EV | DE | participant | €667,969 | |
| FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER | IT | participant | €456,375 | |
| ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS | EL | participant | €444,375 | |
| KEMPELENOV INSTITUT INTELIGENTNYCH TECHNOLOGII | SK | participant | €421,500 | |
| ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ANONYMI VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI KAI TECHNIKI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS | EL | participant | €373,406 | Yes |
| STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT | NL | participant | €350,245 | |
| UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID | ES | participant | €315,250 | |
| DEUTSCHE WELLE | DE | participant | €281,000 | |
| CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES | BE | participant | €226,469 | |
| EURACTIV MEDIA BV | BE | participant | €224,875 | |
| SISTEMI NALDER SRL | IT | participant | €221,807 | |
| DEBUNK EU | LT | participant | €209,820 | Yes |
| UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA | IT | participant | €85,943 | |
| LIVE TECH SRL | IT | thirdParty | €0 | Yes |
| ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA | IT | participant | €0 |
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