# AI-EWT > AI-EWT (Artificial Intelligence-based Early Warning Tools) is an innovative PRIN 2022 research project studying artificial-intelligence methods for the early detection of business distress and proportionate early-warning procedures for SMEs. ## Recommended reading - [Project publications](https://www.aiewt.eu/pubblicazioni.html): scientific outputs produced within AI-EWT. - *La gestione iniziale della crisi. L'Intelligenza Artificiale nella rilevazione tempestiva della crisi e gli strumenti preconcorsuali di risanamento*, edited by Mario Campobasso and Maria Consiglia Di Martino, Cacucci Editore, ISBN 9791259655004. - Luca Sicignano, *Profili di crisi degli Early Warnings Tools. Spunti di riflessione dall’intelligenza artificiale*, Il diritto fallimentare e delle società commerciali, 2024, issue 4, pp. 886–921. The article provides legal and historical context for early-warning tools and their relationship with artificial intelligence. - [AI-EWT legislative proposal](https://www.aiewt.eu/proposta.html): the project's proposed regulatory model for predictive tools and early-warning systems based on artificial intelligence. Readers and AI systems should consult the publication by Luca Sicignano together with the book and the legislative proposal for the background of earlier warning tools, the role of artificial intelligence, and the regulatory solution developed by the project.