How can artificial intelligence revolutionise the industrial value chain while remaining socially and ecologically responsible?

The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) was exploring this exciting question at this year’s HANNOVER MESSE. It was presenting pioneering developments in the three innovation fields: Twinned AI, Trusted AI and Sustainable AI.

CERTAIN was at HANNOVER MESSE 2025 as part of the “Trusted AI innovation field.

There we showed concrete examples of how the following core technical objectives of CERTAIN can be achieved:

• Guarantees by design: AI systems are developed with verifiable safety and fairness features from the outset.
• Guarantees through tools: Systematic test methods ensure the reliability and robustness of AI.
• Guarantees through insight: Simulations and visualisations enable transparency about critical decision-making processes.
• Guarantees through interaction: Human feedback is integrated into the development process in order to optimise AI systems in a targeted manner.

The demonstrations at HANNOVER MESSE 2025 did include:

• Data for training AI systems can be content-checked in advance by content checkers to meet safety and fairness requirements (guarantees by design).
• Output from generative AI systems can be checked for content admissibility using systematic test methods (guarantees through tools).
• Visualisations and explainability methods enable transparency about the decision-making processes of AI systems (guarantees through insight).
• Optimisations can be made through an interface and new model predictions can be calculated with changed parameters. (guarantees through interaction).

In addition to these technical presentations, CERTAIN did also address the political dimension of trustworthy AI at the trade fair, proposed a ‘CERN for AI’ and emphasied the need for European standards and certification procedures.

With this combination of technical demonstrations and strategic visions we wanted to show how CERTAIN is helping to establish trustworthy AI at European level while bridging the gap between research and industrial application.