Description

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, runs this Phase 1 competition to develop evidence-based deployment use cases for existing advanced AI and machine learning solutions. The Decision Critical Systems strand supports systems whose primary purpose is helping people make high-risk judgements, recommendations or decisions with significant consequences for deployers or end users.

Projects must move beyond routine implementation and address substantive technical, operational, regulatory or assurance barriers. Consortia will assess supplier and deployer readiness, establish the solution’s operational value, and demonstrate it using representative deployer data and systems in a representative operational environment. They must also obtain support letters from potential future deployers and outline preparation for Phase 2. The longer-term aim is trusted live deployment and replication, rather than early-stage research or generic productivity improvements.