Imagine a digital tutor that doesn't just tell you if a news story is fake, but teaches you how to figure it out yourself. It uses a questioning style, like a philosopher, to guide you through the logic of a claim. It's like a gym for your brain that helps you build the muscle of critical thinking.
Generative AI is accelerating the production of disinformation, making it harder for people to trust digital content. This erodes trust in institutions and creates societal polarization that harms business and democratic stability.
An AI-driven chatbot that uses Socratic questioning to coach users in critical thinking and a distributed ecosystem for collaborative information investigation.
If you are a platform provider dealing with the rapid spread of fake news — this project developed an AI-based assistant that coaches users to verify information themselves. This reduces the burden on manual moderation by empowering the user base. It helps mitigate the risk of societal polarization on the platform.
If you are an EdTech company dealing with low media literacy among students — this project developed a personalized chatbot that uses the Socratic method to improve critical thinking. It provides micro-lessons and guided investigations to advance a user's ability to detect disinformation. This creates a scalable, automated coaching product.
If you are a security firm dealing with employees falling for social engineering and disinformation — this project developed an intelligent coaching ecosystem. It trains staff to conduct effective investigations into the truth of statements. This lowers the risk of corporate deception and misinformation-led errors.
Based on available project data, no specific commercial pricing is mentioned, though the project received an EU contribution of EUR 5,734,395 for development.
The project aims to create an open, distributed ecosystem designed to help citizens detect disinformation at scale through automated AI coaching.
Based on available project data, the specific licensing terms are not listed, but the project objective is to deliver an open ecosystem.
The chatbot is designed to direct users toward the appropriate use of suitable fact-checking and media literacy tools and services rather than replacing them.
The project period runs from 2022-09-01 to 2025-11-30, suggesting the final results will be available by late 2025.
The consortium is well-balanced for a tech-transfer project, consisting of 14 partners across 8 countries. With a 29% industry ratio (4 industrial partners, including 3 SMEs), there is a clear bridge between the 4 universities and 4 research organizations and the commercial market. The inclusion of social science partners ensures the AI is grounded in human behavior, reducing the risk of technical failure in real-world social settings.
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