Title
Empowering local communities using artificial intelligence
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications can profoundly affect society. Recently, there has been extensive interest in studying how scientists design AI systems for general tasks. However, it remains an open question as to whether the AI systems developed in this way can work as expected in different regional contexts while simultaneously empowering local people. How can scientists co-create AI systems with local communities to address regional concerns? This article contributes new perspectives in this underexplored direction at the intersection of data science, AI, citizen science, and human-computer interaction. Through case studies, we discuss challenges in co-designing AI systems with local people, collecting and explaining community data using AI, and adapting AI systems to long-term social change. We also consolidate insights into bridging AI research and citizen needs, including evaluating the social impact of AI, curating community datasets for AI development, and building AI pipelines to explain data patterns to laypeople.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.patter.2022.100449
Patterns
Keywords
DocType
Volume
DSML 2: Proof-of-concept: Data science output has been formulated, implemented, and tested for one domain/problem
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2666-3899
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yen-Chia Hsu100.68
Ting-Hao Huang214619.23
himanshu verma3144.33
Andrea Mauri410916.75
Illah Nourbakhsh52464294.80
Alessandro Bozzon664171.27