Descrizione del progetto
Combinare l’intelligenza umana e quella artificiale per combattere la disinformazione online
Le fake news, la disinformazione e i discorsi di odio online sono pervasivi e incrementano le tensioni presenti nella società. Alla luce della crescente preoccupazione secondo cui questa retorica dannosa incita la violenza e incentiva l’estremismo, è più importante che mai una strategia globale volta a contrastare questo fenomeno digitale. In questo contesto, il progetto HYBRIDS del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie sta lavorando al fine di fornire ai ricercatori le competenze e gli strumenti a loro necessari per combattere la disinformazione. In particolare, il progetto integrerà le conoscenze strutturate fornite dalle scienze umane e sociali in strumenti di elaborazione del linguaggio naturale e algoritmi di apprendimento profondo. Mediante lo sviluppo di nuovi sistemi di intelligenza ibrida, HYBRIDS combinerà l’intelligenza umana e quella artificiale allo scopo di superare le lacune presenti nei metodi di intelligenza artificiale esistenti.
Obiettivo
False rumors, fake news or hate speech against vulnerable minorities through social media are becoming one of the main threats against democracies. A global strategy against disinformation is crucial as open democratic societies rely on free citizens with the ability to access verifiable information so that they can build their own opinions on different political issues. The main scientific objective of HYBRIDS is to provide researchers with the knowledge necessary to design strategies and tools to response to disinformation on the basis of a deep analysis of public discourse. There have been interesting advances in the automatic detection of disinformation by making use of natural language processing and new artificial intelligence techniques in the specific field of machine and deep learning.
However, this is a very complex task that requires a high degree of natural language understanding, inference and reasoning. To improve the strategies to deal with disinformation, HYBRIDS will integrate the structured knowledge provided by social and human sciences into natural language processing tools and deep learning algorithms, so as to develop new hybrid intelligence systems. The concept of Hybrid Intelligence consists of combining machine and human intelligence to overcome the shortcomings of existing artificial intelligence methods.
Even though hybrid systems are likely to become more and more decisive in the immediate future, there are very few experts who can design and develop such systems. This is mainly due to the multidisciplinary nature of the hybrid strategy and the difficulty of finding researchers with full training in traditionally separate disciplines such as computer engineering, social sciences or linguistics. We believe it is time to launch a DN with the necessary requirements to train researchers in hybrid methodologies for their application in social studies with an impact on the sustainability of good democratic practices in Europe.
Campo scientifico
- humanitieslanguages and literaturelinguistics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineering
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencenatural language processing
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracy
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningdeep learning
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinatore
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