EU white paper on AI and aim for a human-centric approach to AI.

Cognitive AI has huge potential to enable human-centric AI along with trust and transparency. I am in Brussels for a workshop on IoT, privacy, security and interoperability, and listening to the announcement by the European Commission to the European Parliament on AI:

> On 19 February 2020, the European Commission published a White Paper aiming to foster a European ecosystem of excellence and trust in AI and a Report on the safety and liability aspects of AI. The White Paper proposes:
>  • Measures that will streamline research, foster collaboration between Member States and increase investment into AI development and deployment;
>  • Policy options for a future EU regulatory framework that would determine the types of legal requirements that would apply to relevant actors, with a particular focus on high-risk applications.


See: https://ec.europa.eu/info/files/white-paper-artificial-intelligence-european-approach-excellence-and-trust_en <https://ec.europa.eu/info/files/white-paper-artificial-intelligence-european-approach-excellence-and-trust_en>

> The European Commission puts forward a European approach to Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. It deals with technological, ethical, legal and socio-economic aspects to boost EU's research and industrial capacity and to put AI at the service of European citizens and economy.

Earlier announcements address trust as a prerequisite to ensure a human-centric approach to AI.

More details and links to resources at: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/artificial-intelligence <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/artificial-intelligence>

It will be interesting to see the role Cognitive AI that can play in respect to the investment programs for AI around the World.

Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
W3C Data Activity Lead & W3C champion for the Web of things