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AI: Humans Must be at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence
Below is aB2+/C1 English Reading and Listening Task. Good luck and enjoy!
The Prelude
What do you already know about AI?
How can AI help improve our lives?
How can AI hurt our lives?
Tell me some pros and cons of AI
by Anna Korhonen, Professor of Natural Language Processing and Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
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Humans should be at the heart of AI
The article argues that AI can greatly improve human life, but only if it is designed around human needs, values, and intelligence rather than as a purely technical tool.
Core message
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AI has the potential to help address major global challenges such as climate change, healthcare, education access, and inequality, and to improve public sector decision-making and services.
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Current AI systems still lack human-like flexibility, contextual understanding, and judgment, and raise serious concerns about bias, misinformation, safety, and job losses.
How AI should be developed
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AI needs to be human-centric, enhancing people’s abilities and creativity instead of replacing them, and must be trustworthy, inclusive, and accessible to diverse communities worldwide.
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Developing such AI requires moving beyond a narrow technical focus and drawing on insights from social, behavioral, cognitive, clinical, and environmental sciences, as well as the arts.
Collaboration beyond the lab
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The article calls for stronger collaboration between universities, industry, policymakers, NGOs, and civil society so AI can be tested and shaped in real-world contexts and made socially beneficial and scalable.
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These cross-sector partnerships are presented as essential to ensuring AI systems are robust, fit for purpose, and serve the public good.
Rethinking AI education
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AI education should train practitioners not only in technical skills but also in social, ethical, environmental, and industrial implications of their work.
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Cambridge is launching new MPhil and PhD programmes in Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (starting October 2025) to prepare researchers to create AI that aligns with human values and needs.
Author and publication
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The piece is an opinion article by Anna Korhonen, Professor of Natural Language Processing and Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
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It was published on 3 April 2025 under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/anna-korhonen-ai-and-humans
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Cambridge sets six principles for ethical AI in language education
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has released a paper outlining six principles for the ethical use of AI in English language learning and assessment. The goal is to ensure credibility, fairness, and trust as AI technologies become more common in education.
The paper emphasizes a human-centred approach — keeping teachers and learners actively involved while maintaining transparency, fairness, and sustainability. It also responds to public concerns about AI-based cheating and the accuracy of automated language testing.
Cambridge’s Six Ethical AI Principles
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Human-level standards: AI assessments must match the reliability and accuracy of skilled human examiners, supported by robust evidence.
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Fairness as foundational: AI must be trained on diverse, unbiased data and continually monitored to ensure inclusivity.
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Data privacy and consent: All users must understand what data is collected and why, protected by strong security and consent protocols.
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Transparency and explainability: Test takers should know when and how AI influences results, with clear oversight and accountability.
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Human involvement: AI should enhance, not replace, the human role in teaching and evaluation, ensuring quality control.
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Sustainability: AI’s environmental impact, including energy use, must be factored into ethical decision-making.
Overall, Cambridge argues that ethical AI must balance innovation with integrity — protecting learners, maintaining standards, and promoting responsible technology use in education.
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The Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA)
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The Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) is a new centre within the University of Cambridge – a world-leading institution with more than 800 years of excellence in education, learning and research.
The founding principle of CHIA is to advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the benefit humanity.
The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary community of researchers to investigate the innovative ways in which human and machine intelligence can be combined to yield AI which is capable of contributing to social and global progress.
CHIA pushes the frontiers of knowledge in this interdisciplinary approach to AI, and plays a leading role in educating the next generation of AI scientists in the area.
Designed to deliver both academic and real-world impact, the Centre seeks to partner with academic, industrial, and other organizations that share interest in human-inspired AI.
Mission
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most rapidly developing technologies today. It is predicted to transform much of our society, with far-reaching human implications. While AI has the potential to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems – ranging from poverty to pandemics, and large-scale conflicts to natural disasters – it will need to become more human to unlock this potential.
This next generation AI will not only rely on technological advances, but equally on our understanding of the human existence in all its forms: cognitive, social, creative and biological. It will combine cutting-edge machine intelligence with rich insights contributed by humanities, social, cognitive, brain, biomedical and environmental sciences. An interdisciplinary approach of this nature will yield AI that can best serve humanity.
People
CHIA brings together diverse researchers across the University to innovate next generation, human-inspired AI. It connects academics working in core and applied areas of AI (e.g., within computer science, engineering, mathematics) with world-leading experts in a wide range of human-centric disciplines (e.g., social, cognitive, brain, biomedical, environmental sciences).
The Centre is also the hub where Cambridge academics can work in collaboration with industry and other stakeholders to guide debate on research priorities, trust in new technologies and the societal impact of AI.
Institute for Technology and Humanity
Level 1, 16 Mill Lane
Cambridge CB2 1SB
United Kingdom
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External Links:
Humans should be at the heart of AI
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/anna-korhonen-ai-and-humans
Five ways Cambridge embraced AI in 2024
https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/five-ways-cambridge-embraced-AI-2024
Cambridge research centre puts people at the heart of AI
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-research-centre-puts-people-at-the-heart-of-ai
How Cambridge research in AI is shaping the future
AI in the classroom: How Cambridge is keeping humans at the centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_6uesCU3c
Cambridge awarded €1.9m to stop AI undermining ‘core human values’
The Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) - University of Cambridge
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