The Changing Nature of Human-AI Relations: A Scoping Review on Terminology and Evolvement in the Scientific Literature

Recent years have brought immense progress in the development of AI technology. This broad-ened its application fields but also led to a surge of interest in many research domains andincreasing significance of human-AI relations for the development of AI technology. This rapidgrowth and evolvement is reflected by the establishment of a great variety of terms, potentiallyleading to what is known as jingle and jangle fallacies. With our scoping review of the termino-logy used in scientific literature to describe human-AI relations and its evolvement over time (with803 records screened, 658 finally included), we capture the variety and development of human-AIterminology in accordance with the shift from interaction to collaboration between humans andAI. We aim to raise awareness of these developments spanning over different research commun-ities and provide a solid basis for future researchers and practitioners conducting complementary,cross-domain research. Our review comprises terminological, bibliometric and thematic analyses,e.g., reporting on the historical development of terms and term composition patterns, but alsoidentifying key authors and publications, geographic distribution of relevant research, and elabo-rating on term conception and usage, and co-occurrences throughout the literature.