HCI Sustaining the Rule of Law and Democracy: A European Perspective

摘要

In a time in which many believe AI poses serious threats to democratic politics, democratic institutions, and our capacity and right to engage freely in democratic practices, AI activism is rising. This activism is not only geared to the AI community itself and the giant tech organizations that are de facto defining the field, but also toward governments and their responsibility to shape the societal and ethical implications of AI (see [1] for a survey on AI activism in the past six years). As a result, human-centered AI is being advocated as the way forward, one to which multidisciplinary methods and approaches, long used by the HCI community, are core.