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2025 (English)In: CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems / [ed] Naomi Yamashita; Vanessa Evers; Koji Yatani; Xianghua Ding, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025, article id 797Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The latest advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Large Language Models (LLMs), have provoked a massive expansion and adoption of AI applications across the board, with seemingly no sector left untouched by recent developments. Anywhere we look, from healthcare to the creative industries, from education to entertainment, from sustainability to knowledge work, AI is being adopted and adapted, funded and fundraised for, developed and designed for, researched and used for doing research. As AI continues to be treated as a necessary and unquestioned solution for a range of societal problems, we seek to ponder and challenge its perceived suitability and inevitability. Moreover, we wonder how we can go about resisting AI solutionism (i.e., the idea that technology provides solutions to complex social problems) and who gets to resist it, in particular if the structures that surround people and their specific positions constrain them from doing so. This workshop will focus on gathering and sharing lessons from experiences resisting, or attempting to resist, AI solutionism; taking stock and revisiting previous learnings from decades of work within and beyond HCI; and envisioning ways, perspectives, tools, and practices to orient ourselves and each other towards more pluralistic futures.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025. article id 797
Keywords [en]
artificial intelligence, data practices, decolonial AI, ethics, feminist AI, human-centered AI, Creative industries, Decolonial artificial intelligence, Feminist artificial intelligence, Human-centered artificial intelligence, Knowledge work, Language model, Social problems, Societal problems, Tools and practices, Economic and social effects
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-57351DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3706732Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005752753ISBN: 9798400713958 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-57351DiVA, id: diva2:1963447
Conference
CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama Japan, 26 April 2025- 1 May, 2025.
2025-06-032025-06-032025-06-03Bibliographically approved