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Lost People: How National AI-Strategies Paying Attention to Users

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Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV (IHIET-AI 2021)

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 1378))

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This paper focus on how major national strategies call attention to the human dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI). All intelligent technologies using AI are constructed for people as either active users or as relatively passive target persons. Thus, human properties and human research should have an important role in developing future AI systems.

In these development strategies, it is interesting to pay attention to the underlying intuitive assumptions and tacit commitments. This issue is especially interesting when we think about what governmental working groups say about people and their changing lives in their strategies.

The traditional stances adopted in writing national strategies, in which technology development is seen as a purely technical issue, should be challenged. In the end, by putting human dimensions aside, societies cannot prepare themselves for the transformation risks. It is also probable that this stance makes communication between technical and human research more difficult.

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  1. University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Pertti Saariluoma & Henrikki Salo-Pöntinen

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  2. Campus du Moulin de la Housse, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne GRESPI, Reims Cedex 2, France

    Redha Taiar

  3. Directrice Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, IFMK, Strasbourg, France

    Fabienne Groff

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Saariluoma, P., Salo-Pöntinen, H. (2021). Lost People: How National AI-Strategies Paying Attention to Users. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Groff, F. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV. IHIET-AI 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1378. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74009-2_72

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