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Forging Successful AI Applications for European Economy and Society

The American University of Armenia’s Center for Ethics in Public Affairs (ETICA) joined a major European Union research Project. The project seeks to move beyond economic efficiency to answer a critical question: What are the right metrics of success in AI?

ETICA will lead Work Package 9 that will research into the specific conditions required to achieve trustworthy AI.

FORSEE is a new Horizon Europe research project aiming to close the gap between AI’s technical potential and its societal legitimacy. AI policy and development often focus narrowly on performance, efficiency, or economic growth. Yet the real-world impacts of AI are shaped by the contexts in which it is deployed—contexts that include public institutions, legal systems, and social norms. Without insights into what successful AI means beyond technological or economic efficiency will end up promoting tools that can be misaligned with democratic priorities. 
 

The FORSEE consortium includes eight partners from across Europe, combining expertise in law, sociology, policy, technology, and governance. The project is coordinated by University College Dublin (Ireland), with partners including Tilburg University (Netherlands), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), TASC Europe Studies (Ireland), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Germany), the European Digital SME Alliance (Belgium), Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III (France), and Demos Helsinki (Finland).

Approach to AI governance that illuminates conditions shaping successful AI applications and ways to replicate them

Evaluative framework for assessing current and future AI applications

Prototype for registering risk and negative impacts

Demos Helsinki leads the project’s impact creation, ensuring that research findings are translated into tools that can shape real policy. We will develop alternative scenarios and future imaginaries for democratic AI, ensuring the project’s results are visible and actionable. We also contribute to the work on structural capacity building in AI governance. Our role focuses on engaging the broader European AI ecosystem, building inclusive communication channels, and coordinating key stakeholder dialogues.

FORSEE will run until January 2028. During this time, it seeks to develop a novel aims approach to AI governance that illuminates conditions shaping successful AI applications and ways to replicate them, an evaluative framework for assessing current and future AI applications and a prototype for registering risk and negative impacts. For those involved in shaping the next phase of European AI policy, it offers both a warning and a roadmap: success must be defined before it can be delivered.

Funded by the framework of the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement Nº 101177579

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