RESPONSIBLE AI USE AND DIGITAL SOLIDARITY - Human-Centered Approaches for A Sustainable Planet

Responsible AI and digital solidarity are rarely discussed in the same room. One belongs to engineers, ethicists, and regulators; the other to communities deciding who shares the benefits and burdens of technology. This volume argues that keeping them apart has become a problem in its own right. Principles, standards, and compliance alone cannot make AI responsible; solidarity that ignores how these systems work remains a sentiment rather than a practice.
Fourteen interdisciplinary chapters by researchers in Türkiye, Pakistan, and Portugal explore these questions across education, public health, disaster response, misinformation, privacy, gender and diversity, digital citizenship, and the environmental cost of computation. The book asks not simply whether AI works, but for whom it works, whose values it reflects, and who answers when it fails.
It opens with a cross-cultural map of AI governance and closes with young people describing, in their own words, how they use generative AI in everyday life. Responsible AI is not certified once; it is maintained together.