Designing Behavior-Aware AI to Improve the Human-AI Team Performance in AI-Assisted Decision Making
Designing Behavior-Aware AI to Improve the Human-AI Team Performance in AI-Assisted Decision Making
Syed Hasan Amin Mahmood, Zhuoran Lu, Ming Yin
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 3106-3114.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/344
With the rapid development of decision aids that are driven by AI models, the practice of AI-assisted decision making has become increasingly prevalent. To improve the human-AI team performance in decision making, earlier studies mostly focus on enhancing humans' capability in better utilizing a given AI-driven decision aid. In this paper, we tackle this challenge through a complementary approach—we aim to train "behavior-aware AI" by adjusting the AI model underlying the decision aid to account for humans' behavior in adopting AI advice. In particular, as humans are observed to accept AI advice more when their confidence in their own judgement is low, we propose to train AI models with a human-confidence-based instance weighting strategy, instead of solving the standard empirical risk minimization problem. Under an assumed, threshold-based model characterizing when humans will adopt the AI advice, we first derive the optimal instance weighting strategy for training AI models. We then validate the efficacy and robustness of our proposed method in improving the human-AI joint decision making performance through systematic experimentation on synthetic datasets. Finally, via randomized experiments with real human subjects along with their actual behavior in adopting the AI advice, we demonstrate that our method can significantly improve the decision making performance of the human-AI team in practice.
Keywords:
Humans and AI: HAI: Human-computer interaction
Humans and AI: HAI: Human-AI collaboration
Humans and AI: HAI: Personalization and user modeling
Humans and AI: HAI: Human computation and crowdsourcing