HCAI4U 2023 - Preface to the First Workshop on User Perspectives in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence

The emerging concept of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) involves the amplification, augmentation, empowerment, and enhancement of individuals. The goal of HCAI is to ensure that AI meets our needs while also operating transparently, delivering fair and equitable outcomes, and respecting privacy, all while preserving human control. This approach involves multiple stakeholders, such as researchers, developers, business leaders, policymakers, and users, who are affected in various ways by the implementation and evaluation of AI systems. The primary focus of the First Workshop on User Perspectives in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (HCAI4U) is to examine the potential positive and negative impacts of automated decision-making systems on end-users, as well as how their interaction with AI is influenced by human-centred aspects of reliability, safety, and fairness. The workshop aims to facilitate discussion and exchange of ideas among the community on advances in developing trustworthy, fair, and privacy-preserving systems, as well as user interfaces that are explainable, with a specific focus on the users’ perception in real-world scenarios rather than solely on the algorithmic and model performance. Additionally, HCAI4U aims to foster cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussions between experts from various research fields, such as computer science, psychology, sociology, law, medicine, business, etc., to discuss problems and synergies in this exciting research topic.