A Survey on the Use of Synthetic Data for Enhancing Key Aspects of Trustworthy AI in the Energy Domain: Challenges and Opportunities

Michael Meiser () and Ingo Zinnikus
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Michael Meiser: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC), 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
Ingo Zinnikus: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC), 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 9, 1-29

Abstract: To achieve the energy transition, energy and energy efficiency are becoming more and more important in society. New methods, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models, are needed to coordinate supply and demand and address the challenges of the energy transition. AI and ML are already being applied to a growing number of energy infrastructure applications, ranging from energy generation to energy forecasting and human activity recognition services. Given the rapid development of AI and ML, the importance of Trustworthy AI is growing as it takes on increasingly responsible tasks. Particularly in the energy domain, Trustworthy AI plays a decisive role in designing and implementing efficient and reliable solutions. Trustworthy AI can be considered from two perspectives, the Model-Centric AI (MCAI) and the Data-Centric AI (DCAI) approach. We focus on the DCAI approach, which relies on large amounts of data of sufficient quality. These data are becoming more and more synthetically generated. To address this trend, we introduce the concept of Synthetic Data-Centric AI (SDCAI). In this survey, we examine Trustworthy AI within a Synthetic Data-Centric AI context, focusing specifically on the role of simulation and synthetic data in enhancing the level of Trustworthy AI in the energy domain.

Keywords: Trustworthy AI; synthetic data; Data-Centric AI; technical robustness; transparency; explainability; reproducibility; privacy; fairness; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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