By Julie Høncke Keldorff, AAU Communication and Public Affairs

Interdisciplinary Approach to AI and Credibility

In the project legal scholars from the University of Copenhagen and data scientists from Aalborg University are joining forces — fully in line with the spirit of the Villum Synergy research program, which aims to enhance research opportunities at the intersection of data science and other fields.

AI systems have proven to be powerful tools for decision-making support. However, in areas such as asylum law, decisions often hinge on the concept of credibility. This is why Professor Thomas B. Moeslund was delighted to receive news of the grant, which enables researchers to explore the relationship between AI systems and credibility, grounded in interdisciplinary, data-driven research. 

"I’m extremely happy to be able to conduct fundamental research in how XAI-algorithms can capture the concept of credibility and how these algorithms can automatically explain themselves to us humans. Also, I’m very much looking forward to interdisciplinary collaboration with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and his colleagues at UCPH Law. The project has the potential to not only push the technical frontiers within AI and XAI, but also push the limits of what we know about human decision-making," says Thomas B. Moeslund, Professor at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University. 

The project has received a total of DKK 12 million, with half allocated to Thomas Moeslund and Aalborg University. The five-year project is set to run from January 2025 to December 2029.