PINNACLE

PINNACLE

The Cyprus Center for Trustworthy AI (CyCAT) at the Open University of Cyprus has launched a new project – PINNACLE (Public Engagement in AI Evaluation for Education and System Benchmarking) – with the generous support of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (BRIDGE2HORIZON/0823E/0203). The funding (150.000 Euro) will allow the OUC team to perform initial scientific research, leading to the coordination of a proposal to extend the work via Horizon Europe.

With the emergence of Generative AI and Foundation Models, such as Open AI’s GPT or Google’s Gemini, new AI-enabled products and services enter the market every day. Have you noticed a recent change in your Samsung mobile phone, which is now able to “understand” your texts, voice messages, and images? Are you learning a language with the Duolingo app, where you can now text and speak with different characters in your new language? Those are powered by Gemini and GPT, respectively, and represent the novel ways in which we are interacting with AI in “everyday” contexts. 

PINNACLE will develop innovative mechanisms by which members of the public can participate actively in discovering and evaluating AI-enabled products and services, in the spirit of the EU’s vision for Trustworthy AI. According to this vision, which underpins the EU AI Act, to be “trustworthy,” AI systems must respect a particular set of principles, such as being technically robust, fair, non-discriminatory,  and respectful of users’ privacy. The PINNACLE methodology will enable members of the public to have their say in evaluating the extent to which the AI-enabled systems they encounter are truly “trustworthy,” in a systematic way that can be documented.