Comparing Socio-technical Design Principles with Guidelines for Human-centered AI

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This paper compares socio-technical design principles with guidelines for human-centered AI, analyzing their similarities and differences to inform future AI design approaches.

arXiv:2607.10331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centered AI (HCAI) refers to guidelines or principles that aim on ethi-cally oriented design of systems. We compare HCAI- guidelines with princi-ples of socio-technical systems that emerged in the context of conventional in-formation technology. The comparison leads to a revision of socio-technical heuristics by including aspects of AI-usage. The comparison reveals that con-tinuous evolution is a basic characteristic of socio-technical systems, and that human oversight or interventions and the subsequent appropriation of AI-systems lead to continuous adaptation and re-design of the systems, if autono-my is collaboratively exercised. From a socio-technical point of view, the cru-cial requirement of transparency has not only to be fulfilled with technical fea-tures, but also by contributions of the whole system including human actors. It will be promising for using AI, if not only technical features, but organization-al and social practices are socio-technically designed in a way that compen-sates shortcomings of AI.
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# Comparing Socio-technical Design Principles with Guidelines for Human-centered AI
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