A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration toward the Realization of Needs-aware AI

Soheil Human
soheil.human@wu.ac.at

Published: 28.06.2022

Needs-aware AI

Need is one of the most fundamental constructs connected to different dimensions of Human-awareness, Accountability, Lawfulness, and Ethicality (HALE) of sociotechnical systems. This construct, however, has not been well considered in the design, development, evaluation and sustaining of the AI-based sociotechnical systems. In our new article [1], we call for the realization of “Needs-aware AI” through interdisciplinary collaborations.

Footnotes: 

[1] The article can be currently accessed here: https://rdcu.be/cQvQu; the permanent link is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00181-5.

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