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Human oversight of AI is promoted as a safeguard against risks such as inaccurate outputs, system malfunctions, or violations of fundamental rights, and is mandated in regulation like the European AI Act. Yet debates on human oversight have…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. AI has raised fundamental questions about what we should do with such systems, what the systems…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Vincent C. Müller

The increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in safety-critical contexts such as air-traffic control leads to systems that are practical and efficient, and to some extent explainable to humans to be trusted and accepted. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Sabine Theis , Sophie Jentzsch , Fotini Deligiannaki , Charles Berro , Arne Peter Raulf , Carmen Bruder

Machine common sense remains a broad, potentially unbounded problem in artificial intelligence (AI). There is a wide range of strategies that can be employed to make progress on this challenge. This article deals with the aspects of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Alexander Gavrilenko , Katerina Morozova

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to attribute human-like traits to non-human entities. It is prevalent in many social contexts -- children anthropomorphize toys, adults do so with brands, and it is a literary device. It is also a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ameet Deshpande , Tanmay Rajpurohit , Karthik Narasimhan , Ashwin Kalyan

Due to the widespread use of data-powered systems in our everyday lives, the notions of bias and fairness gained significant attention among researchers and practitioners, in both industry and academia. Such issues typically emerge from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Gianluca Demartini , Kevin Roitero , Stefano Mizzaro

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to operate in complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments, performing tasks such as manipulation, navigation, and decision-making. Achieving these capabilities requires agents to understand the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peng-Fei Zhang , Ying Cheng , Xiaofan Sun , Shijie Wang , Fengling Li , Lei Zhu , Heng Tao Shen

Understanding human behaviour, neuroscience and psychology using concepts from the domain of AI is increasing in popularity. Given the massive integration of AI technologies into our daily lives, AI-related concepts are being used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Warmhold Jan Thomas Mollema , Thomas Wachter

The explanation dimension of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based system has been a hot topic for the past years. Different communities have raised concerns about the increasing presence of AI in people's everyday tasks and how it can affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Juliana Jansen Ferreira , Mateus Monteiro

This paper investigates the influence of anthropomorphized descriptions of so-called "AI" (artificial intelligence) systems on people's self-assessment of trust in the system. Building on prior work, we define four categories of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Nanna Inie , Stefania Druga , Peter Zukerman , Emily M. Bender

As robots and other intelligent agents move from simple environments and problems to more complex, unstructured settings, manually programming their behavior has become increasingly challenging and expensive. Often, it is easier for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Takayuki Osa , Joni Pajarinen , Gerhard Neumann , J. Andrew Bagnell , Pieter Abbeel , Jan Peters

The rise of AI in human contexts places new demands on automated systems to be transparent and explainable. We examine some anthropomorphic ideas and principles relevant to such accountablity in order to develop a theoretical framework for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Edwin J. Beggs , John V. Tucker

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) systems suggests that artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems may soon arrive. Many researchers are concerned that AIs and AGIs will harm humans via intentional misuse (AI-misuse)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Catalin Mitelut , Ben Smith , Peter Vamplew

While autonomous agents often surpass humans in their ability to handle vast and complex data, their potential misalignment (i.e., lack of transparency regarding their true objective) has thus far hindered their use in critical applications…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Frédéric Berdoz , Roger Wattenhofer

Nowadays, we delegate many of our decisions to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that acts either in solo or as a human companion in decisions made to support several sensitive domains, like healthcare, financial services and law enforcement. AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Nicoleta Tantalaki , Athena Vakali

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are being used to predict and assess behaviour in multiple domains, such as criminal justice and consumer finance, which directly affect human well-being. However, if AI is to improve people's…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Andrea Aler Tubella , Andreas Theodorou , Virginia Dignum , Frank Dignum

AI systems have increasingly become our gateways to the Internet. We argue that just as advertising has driven the monetization of web search and social media, so too will commercial incentives shape the content served by AI. Unlike…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Menghua Wu , Yujia Bao

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum, and its importance for the future of work in many areas, such as medicine and banking, is continuously rising. However, insights on the effective collaboration of humans and AI are still…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Max Schemmer , Niklas Kühl , Carina Benz , Gerhard Satzger

Innovations in AI have focused primarily on the questions of "what" and "how"-algorithms for finding patterns in web searches, for instance-without adequate attention to the possible harms (such as privacy, bias, or manipulation) and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Suresh Venkatasubramanian , Nadya Bliss , Helen Nissenbaum , Melanie Moses

AI design characteristics and human personality traits each impact the quality and outcomes of human-AI interactions. However, their relative and joint impacts are underexplored in imperfectly cooperative scenarios, where people and AI only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Myke C. Cohen , Mingqian Zheng , Neel Bhandari , Hsien-Te Kao , Xuhui Zhou , Daniel Nguyen , Laura Cassani , Maarten Sap , Svitlana Volkova