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ArticleAI & society2025

We're only human after all: a critique of human-centred AI.

Mark Ryan

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Article in AI & society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Warning people about the risk of AI error mitigates human acquisition of AI bias.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026
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  3. What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  4. Seen but overlooked: animals as stakeholders in AI ethics discourses.Animal frontiers : the review magazine of animal agriculture · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Mark RyanWageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4850-0111

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of a 'human-centred' artificial intelligence approach (HCAI) has substantially increased over the past few years in academic texts (1600 +); institutions (27 Universities have HCAI labs, such as Stanford, Sydney, Berkeley, and Chicago); in tech companies (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, and Google); in politics (e.g., G7, G20, UN, EU, and EC); and major institutional bodies (e.g., World Bank, World Economic Forum, UNESCO, and OECD). Intuitively, it sounds very appealing: placing human concerns at the centre of AI development and use. However, this paper will use insights from the works of Michel Foucault (mostly

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Ethics of AIFoucaultHuman-centred artificial intelligencePhilosophy of technologyThe Order of Things

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PMID40225308
PMCPMC11985563

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