Episode Details

October 4, 2024
Ming Yin, Purdue University

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been increasingly integrated into human workflows. For example, the usage of AI-based decision aids in human decision-making processes has resulted in a new paradigm of AI-assisted decision making---that is, the AI-based decision aid provides a decision recommendation to the human decision makers, while humans make the final decision. The increasing prevalence of human-AI collaborative decision making highlights the need to understand how humans engage with the AI-based decision aids in these decision-making processes, and how to promote the effectiveness of the human-AI team in decision making. In this talk, I'll discuss a few examples illustrating that when AI is used to assist humans---both an individual decision maker or a group of decision makers---in decision making, people's engagement with the AI assistance is largely subject to their heuristics and biases, rather than careful deliberation of the respective strengths and limitations of AI and themselves. I'll then describe how to enhance AI-assisted decision making by accounting for human engagement behavior in the designs of AI-based decision aids. For example, AI recommendations can be presented to decision makers in a way that promotes their appropriate reliance on AI by leveraging or mitigating human biases, informed by the analysis of human competence in decision making. Alternatively, AI-assisted decision making can be improved by developing AI models that can anticipate and adapt to the engagement behavior of human decision makers.

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About the speaker:
Ming Yin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University. Her current research interests include human-AI interaction, crowdsourcing and human computation, and computational social sciences. Before joining Purdue, Ming was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New York City. Ming completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University and received her bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University. Ming is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and she was the Conference Co-Chair of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) in 2022. Her work was recognized with multiple best paper and honorable mention awards at CHI, CSCW, and HCOMP, and was covered by ACM Ubiquity, New Scientist, World Economic Forum, and more.

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