Editorial: Computational argumentation: a foundation for human-centric AI
Emmanuelle Dietz, Antonis C. Kakas, Loizos Michael · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 2024
What is an appropriate foundation for building Human-centric AI (HCAI) systems? What foundation would allow AI to draw elements from several disciplines to synthesize coherent solutions to the many challenges posed by HCAI?This research topic stipulates that a foundation for HCAI needs to be at the level of a new underlying logical (reasoning) framework, in an analogous way that Classical Logic is the foundation or Calculus for Computer Science. Resting on the thesis that such a logical framework should be built on a solid understanding of human cognitive reasoning, and acknowledging the natural link of argumentation with human cognitive reasoning and human decision making at large, the present research topic explores the proposal of Argumentation as the foundation or Calculus for Human-Centric AI [6].The aim of this call and its suggestion for the foundational role of argumentation in Human-Centric AI was to help bring together the wide variety of work on argumentation -ranging from argumentation in Philosophy and Ethics to the pragmatics of argumentative discourse in human debates -to understand how to synthesize a viable and robust basis for the development and use of HCAI systems. Systems that would meet their cognitive and ethical requirements, and integrate symbiotically, as expert or peer companions, within the human society, by complementing and enhancing the natural intelligence of humans.In addition to the paper that sets the scene for this Research Topic [6], another eight papers were accepted, ranging from results in theoretical work, presen-tation of own frameworks and setting the context of their work in …