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Henri Pirkkalainen
Professor · Project Lead
Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University
AI agents can already act without human intervention. This project studies what happens when they are turned against people, and what protects against it.
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EVIL-AI ("evil eye") is the Identification and Mitigation of the Negative Effects of Artificial Intelligence Agents: a four-year project at Tampere University, funded by a €1,413,000 grant from the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
The project studies AI agents, meaning software and systems that perform intelligent tasks without human intervention, and investigates their malicious applications: chatbots, service robots and metaverse avatars, across virtual and physical environments. The work spans identifying and counteracting their negative impacts, assessing AI regulation, examining human-AI interaction in VR and in physical settings, and evaluating risk scenarios involving phishing and disinformation.
Professor · Project Lead
Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University
Professor · Project Lead
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University
Associate Professor · Project Lead
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University
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Affiliation
Tampere University, Finland
Kalevantie 4, 33100 Tampere, Finland
Funded by
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
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Short videos on how these harms work, made for a general audience. None have been produced yet.
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Curated reports on AI harms happening in the world, each published with its source.
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Peer-reviewed papers, working papers and policy briefs from the project.