Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly employed by businesses, governments, and other organizations to make decisions with farreaching impacts on individuals and society. This offers big opportunities for automation in different sectors and daily life, but at the same time it brings risks for discrimination of minority and marginal population groups on the basis of the so-called protected attributes, like gender, race, and age. Despite the large body of research to date, the proposed methods work in limited settings, under very constrained assumptions, and do not reflect the complexity and requirements of real world applications. To this end, the MAMMOth project focuses on multi-discrimination mitigation for tabular, network and multimodal data. Through its computer science and AI experts, MAMMOth aims at addressing the associated scientific challenges by developing an innovative fairness-aware AI-data driven foundation that provides the necessary tools and techniques for the discovery and mitigation of (multi-)discrimination and ensures the accountability of AI-systems with respect to multiple protected attributes and for traditional tabular data and more complex network and visual data. The project will actively engage with numerous communities of vulnerable and/or underrepresented groups in AI research right from the start, adopting a co-creation approach, to make sure that actual user needs and pains are at the centre of the research agenda and act as guidance to the project’s activities. A social science-driven approach supported by social science and ethics experts will guide project research, and a science communication approach will increase the outreach of the outcomes. The project aims to demonstrate through pilots the developed solutions into three relevant sectors of interest: a) finance/loan applications, b) identity verification systems, and c) academic evaluation.
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Antonio Francesco Maturo
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell'Economia
Coordinator:
Centre For Research And Technology Hellas(Greece)
Other Participants:
Universitaet Der Bundeswehr Muenchen
(Germany)
Trilateral Research Limited
(Ireland)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna
(Italy)
Complexity Science Hub Vienna Csh -Verein Zur Forderung Wissenschaftliwissenschaftlicher Forschung Im Bereich Komplexer Systeme
(Austria)
Associacio Forum Dona Activa 2010
(Spain)
Ariadnext
(France)
Iasis
(Greece)
Exus Software Monoprosopi Etairia Periorismenis Evthinis
(Greece)
University Of Groningen - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Rug)
(Netherlands)
Csi Center For Social Innovation Ltd
(Cyprus)
Vsi Diversity Development Group
(Lithuania)
Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 3.392.476,00
Project Duration in months: 36
Start Date:
01/11/2022
End Date:
31/10/2025
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101070285