Published December 29, 2021 | Version v1
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On some Foundational Aspects of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

  • 1. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
  • 2. University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • 3. Orebro University, Sweden
  • 4. Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
  • 5. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, National Research Council, Italy
  • 6. Universite Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, France
  • 7. Ca' Foscari University, Italy
  • 8. Technische Universitat Wien, Austria
  • 9. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Description

The burgeoning of AI has prompted recommendations that AI techniques should be "human-centered". However, there is no clear definition of what is meant by Human Centered Artificial Intelligence, or for short, HCAI. This paper aims to improve this situation by addressing some foundational aspects of HCAI. To do so, we introduce the term HCAI agent to refer to any physical or software computational agent equipped with AI components and that interacts and/or collaborates with humans. This article identifies five main conceptual components that participate in an HCAI agent: Observations, Requirements, Actions, Explanations and Models. We see the notion of HCAI agent, together with its components and functions, as a way to bridge the technical and non-technical discussions on human-centered AI. In this paper, we focus our analysis on scenarios consisting of a single agent operating in dynamic environments in presence of humans.

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European Commission
AI4EU - A European AI On Demand Platform and Ecosystem 825619