Research project

Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems

Research groups:

Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Lead researchers:

Professor Sebastian Stein
Research funder:

EPSRC
Website:

https://ccais.ac.uk
Status:

Active

Project overview

In this project, we are developing the fundamental science needed to build trusted (and trustworthy) citizen-centric AI systems. These AI systems will put citizens at their heart, rather than view them as passive providers of data. They will make decisions that maximise the benefit for citizens, given their individual constraints and preferences. They will use incentives where appropriate to encourage positive behaviour change, but they will also be robust to strategic manipulation, in order to prevent individuals from exploiting the system at the expense of others. Importantly, citizen-centric AI systems will involve citizens and other stakeholders in a feedback loop that enables them to audit decisions and modify the system's behaviour to ensure that effective but also ethical decisions are taken.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Sebastian Stein

Professor

Research interests

Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems
Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems
Applications of AI in smart energy, transportation, electric vehicle charging and disaster response

Connect with Sebastian

Email: ss2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Agents, Interaction and Complexity

We research the science and engineering of complex areas. We focus on areas including human-machine teams and human-in-the-loop interaction.

Research outputs

Personalised electric vehicle charging stop planning through online estimators

Elnaz Shafipour, Sebastian Stein & Selin Ahipasaoglu, 2024, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 38(45)

DOI: 10.1007/s10458-024-09671-8

Type: article

AI and climate resilience governance

Sara Mehryar, Vahid Yazdanpanah & Jeffrey Tong, 2024, iScience, 27(6)

DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109812

Type: review

Formal specification of actual trust in multiagent systems

Michael Akintunde, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Asieh Fathabadi, Corina Cirstea, Mehdi Dastani & Luc Moreau, 2024

Type: conference

"Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, fairness, and ethical concerns of a citizen carbon budget for reducing CO2 emissions

Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Peter Craigon, Anna-Maria Piskopani, Liz Dowthwaite, Yang Lu, Justyna Lisinska, Elnaz Shafipour, Sebastian Stein & Joel Fischer, 2024

Type: conference

Responsible use of citizen-centric AI

Sarah Kiden, Vahid Yazdanpanah & Sebastian Stein, 2024

Type: other