FARI Brussels Conference: AI, Data, and Robotics for the Common Good
July 5-6, 2022 │ BOZAR, 23 Rue Ravenstein, 1000 Bruxelles
FARI
FARI is an independent, not-for-profit Artificial Intelligence initiative led by two universities in Brussels: the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). This initiative will aim at helping citizens, politicians and companies as well as not-for-profit organizations to address local, every day or long-term challenges in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium and Europe.
It brings world-leading and future researchers to the service of the city. It reinforces a virtuous circle: the city encounters problems that FARI can help address with projects that in their turn could lead to major scientific advances, especially in the field of AI (Explainable and Trustworthy), Data (Open) and Robotics (human-centric).
Values
We put human-centric AI research and innovation at the core of our activities. We will involve ethical and civic steering committees onboard, to actively participate, guarantee the applicability, acceptability and relevance of our projects. The initiative will be driven by AI and Data ethics. Beyond beautiful words, this means that for every potential project, partners will have to be aligned with the legal requirements of, for instance fairness, transparency and accountability, while respecting academic freedom and integrating ethical and societal concerns. We will ensure that all FARI projects consider the EU’s seven key requirements for responsible AI, both in the context of research and in the context of use. All FARI’s projects will respect the ground rules of the responsible research and innovation. We are also committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the OECD’s call for a new growth narrative. Finally, FARI does not promote technological solutionism and therefore does not promote AI as a systematic solution to every problem.
News
Round-up: European AI Week 2022
FARI celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science
FARI officially launches AI for the Common Good projects under NexGenerationEU programme
In brief
Researchers
ULB and VUB Research Labs
Disciplines represented
Events
Ethics Washing & Artificial Intelligence
icity Lab Talks: digital research solutions
FARI events @ European AI Week 2022
Vision AI Open Day
FARI Brussels Conference: AI, Data, and Robotics for the Common Good
Activities



Our core research teams
10 core research teams from VUB and ULB are involved in FARI. You can consult the full list of Professors associated with FARI (PDF, version of January 2022)
Team
Scientific Leaders
Management
Collaborators


Strategy and reporting collaborator
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion specialist
Special advisors
Press & Media
They also talk about us: engineeringnet.be, computable.be, icity.brussels, numerikare.be,