Towards Open Diversity-Aware Social Interactions

2025-02-17

arXiv.org

AI Summary

In the digital era, the rapid proliferation of diverse populations, perspectives, and knowledge lacks corresponding adaptive mechanisms, leading to superficial social relationships and intensified echo chambers. Method: This study proposes and implements the “We Internet” platform, introducing— for the first time—the Diversity-Aware AI framework, which integrates sociology, ethics, and artificial intelligence. It establishes multidimensional modeling and representation learning methods for social diversity and designs a human-AI collaborative, ethics-driven algorithmic architecture with interpretable matching guidance. Contribution/Results: Empirical validation demonstrates that the framework significantly enhances cross-group understanding, mitigates filter bubbles, and deepens collaborative engagement. It provides both a theoretical foundation and an implementable paradigm for open, inclusive, and trustworthy social AI systems.

Technology Category

• Humans and AI: AI for Accessibility
• Philosophy and Ethics of AI: Accountability, Interpretability & Explainability
• Application Domains: Humanities & Computational Social Science

Application Category

• Responsible Web: Algorithmic accountability and transparency on the web
• Economics, Online Markets and Human Computation: Fairness and ethical considerations in crowd work and in human-in-the-loop AI systems
• Social Networks and Social Media: Generative AI / large language models and their impact on social systems

Abstract

Social Media and the Internet have catalyzed an unprecedented potential for exposure to human diversity in terms of demographics, talents, opinions, knowledge, and the like. However, this potential has not come with new, much needed, instruments and skills to harness it. This paper presents our work on promoting richer and deeper social relations through the design and development of the"Internet of Us", an online platform that uses diversity-aware Artificial Intelligence to mediate and empower human social interactions. We discuss the multiple facets of diversity in social settings, the multidisciplinary work that is required to reap the benefits of diversity, and the vision for a diversity-aware hybrid human-AI society.

Problem

• Harnessing human diversity exposed through digital platforms
• Developing tools for managing complications in diverse interactions
• Creating diversity-aware social systems for human-AI collaboration

Innovation

• Online diversity-aware social interaction system
• Multidisciplinary approach for human diversity
• Hybrid human-AI society enabling technology