ABSTRACT

As the rise of smartphones and devices with Internet capabilities increases globally, the opportunities for human-centered artificial intelligence (HCAI) are limitless as these tools seek to improve every aspect of human life. Innovations like smart homes, medically-implanted devices, healthcare assistant technology, emotional AI that tracks and responds to the physiological reactions associated with feelings, and other smart wearable technology; the benefits of these HCAI are without measure. However the harms for HCAI are also boundless. The HCAI field is concerned with using human physical, physiological, behavioral, and/or other characteristics for creating technology for social good, but often these enormous holes for exploiting data used in HCAI are not properly studied, examined, and mitigated. Often, the capitalist gains of potential HCAI technologies are only thought about if harms are tested and played out in the communities and populations that are the most marginalized.