Solaris EU Project

Research project SOLARIS (Strengthening democratic engagement through value-based generative adversarial networks) aims to create workable policy propositions to push back against machine-generated deep fakes, that threaten the stability of EU democracies. The project is funded by Horizon Europe to the tune of 2.6 million euros, and it combines the efforts of 12 partners from 8 countries, dedicated to researching the political risks of deep fakes and fake news, generated by machine learning technology. The project has three broad objectives during its run. The first is understanding the political risk of GANs, as well as understanding their socio-political impact. Consequently, co-creating policy options and regulatory innovations to mitigate the risk of GANs is the second objective of the project. This step is also supposed to produce concrete evidence-based suggestions for lawmakers. The third objective focuses on channelling the potential of GANs to do good, broadly speaking. Project participants, as well as citizens, will be able to get involved and create value based GANs to increase awareness of key global issues like climate change, gender, and migration.