Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Regulators & Policymakers

AI-innovation in Europe lags behind the US and China. To catch up and ensure pro-European outcomes, AI-regulation constitutes the
EU’s main channel to shape the future of AI-development globally. This project will support European regulators and policy makers
with knowledge and tools to adequately address challenges and opportunities of trustworthy and ethical AI and to develop and enforce
effective regulation of AI based on human rights, European values, and citizens' needs.

AI4POL will explore how regulators can use data
science and AI-driven tools to improve monitoring and enforcement of regulations such as the Data Act, the Digital Markets Act, the
AI Act and in consumer law. To this end, we will focus on a key innovation area, financial services, and how to increase AI-enhanced
understanding and citizen feedback for the informed regulation of digital services by developing a large language model for legal jargon
translation and a browser-plugin for user feedback about their understanding of laws.

We will also analyze how to create and regulate
trustworthy AI for financial services, for example with robo-advisors or credit scoring. Taking a long-term, geopolitical perspective,
we will develop an early-warning system regarding high-risk AI in autocratic states, including the development of an AI Threat Index
and dashboard and piloted with the cases of China and Russia.

AI4POL pursues these objectives with a multidisciplinary, diverse
research team, combining substantive expertise in AI/data science, ethics, law, economics, and political science with project management
resilience, quality assurance and timeline monitoring, and risk-based intervention plans. The consortium has extensive experience in
advising policy makers and has reliable contacts to various stakeholders, evidenced by AI4POL’s Advisory Board comprising EU- and
national regulators and policy makers, consumer protection agencies, civil society organizations, and AI-firms.

AI4POL is a three-year Horizon Europe project aimed at supporting European regulators and policymakers by providing the necessary tools, insights, and frameworks to develop and enforce AI regulations that are aligned with European values, human rights, and citizens’ needs.

It brings together experts from law, economics, data science, political science, and ethics to develop practical tools and policy insights for AI governance.