Impact of AI and Digital Twins on IIoT

We discuss the role and impact of AI on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as envisioned by the European flagship project on 6G, Hexa-X. The envisioned ecosystem of trustworthy collaborative digital twins (DTs) lays the foundation for emergent intelligence (EI) and utilization of AI for industrial scenarios. One important building block for utilization of AI in IIoT is the inclusion of the human: we therefore provide insights on AI at the intersection between DTs and human-machine interfaces (HMIs)