Transformative sustainable AI technologies
Funding for speculative, high-risk research on sustainable AI technologies.
This opportunity funds speculative and high-risk research projects with the potential to deliver a step change in the sustainability of future AI systems. It focuses exclusively on novel AI technologies, computational approaches, methods, tools, architectures and techniques that could significantly improve the sustainability of future AI systems.
It is open to research groups and individuals base…
The opportunity focuses exclusively on the development of novel AI technologies, computational approaches, methods, tools, architectures and techniques that could significantly improve the sustainability of future AI systems. Applications must be technology-led and demonstrate a clear pathway to advancing the underlying AI value chain. It will not fund applications consisting of majority non-technical research such as purely social science, environmental, legal, policy or ethical studies, incremental work, continuation of existing projects, benchmarking against existing tools and techniques, or replication of what exists within industry.
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