Privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue systems – Organisation of a technological challenge

The main goal of this opportunity is to create a testing environment and organize a technological challenge to evaluate how human-AI dialogue systems perform in defense scenarios. The focus is on testing these systems' abilities to handle classified information and provide clear justifications for their answers. This initiative aims to standardize testing methods, increase transparency for stakeholders, and foster collaboration at the European defense level. It also seeks to promote trustworthy dialogue systems that support better decision-making and to make relevant databases available for future development. The exact geographic scope is not specified in the available context.

• Projects must follow specific proposal page limits and layout requirements.
• They need to focus on generating knowledge, improving interoperability and resilience, or conducting feasibility studies.
• System prototyping, testing, qualification, and certification activities are not eligible.
• Proposals must include tasks such as setting up a testing infrastructure, developing data annotation guidelines, managing experimental test campaigns, and organizing debriefing workshops.

Examples:

• A project that builds a secure platform to test AI-based dialogue systems for military decision support.
• A study developing guidelines for annotating sensitive defense-related conversations to improve AI evaluation.
• An initiative that organizes a series of workshops to review and discuss the results of experimental AI system tests within a defense context.

• Personnel costs
• Subcontracting
• Travel and subsistence
• Equipment (depreciation or rental)
• Consumables and materials
• Dissemination and communication
• Access to research infrastructure
• IPR and certification
• Audit costs
• Indirect costs (25% flat rate)
• Internally invoiced service

Budget for this call: 7,000,000€

• Applicants must be from eligible countries (details provided in the call document).
• Applicants must meet certain financial and operational capacity requirements.
• Applicants must not fall under any exclusion criteria.
• Eligibility may depend on specific conditions outlined in the call document.
• Further details, including possible requirements for networks or partnerships, are available in the call document.