The European Vision for AI event, held on 22 April 2021, provided an opportunity for the public to hear from members of the European artificial intelligence (AI) community and representatives from the European Commission and parliament. The morning-long session was organised by the VISION project partners in cooperation with four networks of AI centres of excellence (AI4Media, ELISE, TAILOR, Humane-AI-Net). These networks were launched within the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme in September 2020 and are bringing together scientists across Europe. This event followed hot on the heels of the announcement from the European Commission regarding proposed new rules and actions for artificial intelligence. During the morning, the speakers provided some context and details around this and there was plenty of interesting discussion on potential paths forward for AI in Europe.

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Over the last fifty years, the world has seen an impressive growth in science - in terms of publications, number of highly-trained scientists and impact of results. This is not only good for science, but also for everyone who benefits from the outcomes and applications of scientific research. An area that has seen much growth lately is artificial intelligence (AI). A full four thousand scientific papers were submitted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), the top international conference in AI, which was held in Stockholm earlier this summer. While growth in science and technology has happened in most countries and regions in the world, recent developments in Asia are particularly impressive.