Fairness Innovation Challenge

Funding for solutions to address bias and discrimination in AI systems

Innovate UK is working with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), part of the Department for Science Innovation and Technology, to invest up to £400,000 in innovation projects.

The aim of this competition is to drive the development of novel solutions to address bias and discrimination in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

The objectives are to:

• encourage the development of socio-technical approaches to fairness
• test how strategies to address bias and discrimination in AI systems can comply with relevant equality and data protection regulation
• provide greater clarity about how different assurance techniques can be applied in practice

Proposals must address bias and discrimination in one of the following use cases:

• provided healthcare use case
• open use case

Proposed solutions must adopt a socio-technical approach to fairness, seeking to address not only statistical but also human and structural biases associated with the AI system in question.

Find out more about the Fairness Innovation Challenge.

First published 25 October 2023