AI Reliance and Decision Quality: Fundamentals, Interdependence, and the Effects of Interventions

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Main Authors: Schoeffer, Jakob, Jakubik, Johannes, Voessing, Michael, Kuehl, Niklas, Satzger, Gerhard
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author Schoeffer, Jakob
Jakubik, Johannes
Voessing, Michael
Kuehl, Niklas
Satzger, Gerhard
author_facet Schoeffer, Jakob
Jakubik, Johannes
Voessing, Michael
Kuehl, Niklas
Satzger, Gerhard
contents In AI-assisted decision-making, a central promise of having a human-in-the-loop is that they should be able to complement the AI system by overriding its wrong recommendations. In practice, however, we often see that humans cannot assess the correctness of AI recommendations and, as a result, adhere to wrong or override correct advice. Different ways of relying on AI recommendations have immediate, yet distinct, implications for decision quality. Unfortunately, reliance and decision quality are often inappropriately conflated in the current literature on AI-assisted decision-making. In this work, we disentangle and formalize the relationship between reliance and decision quality, and we characterize the conditions under which human-AI complementarity is achievable. To illustrate how reliance and decision quality relate to one another, we propose a visual framework and demonstrate its usefulness for interpreting empirical findings, including the effects of interventions like explanations. Overall, our research highlights the importance of distinguishing between reliance behavior and decision quality in AI-assisted decision-making.
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spellingShingle AI Reliance and Decision Quality: Fundamentals, Interdependence, and the Effects of Interventions
Schoeffer, Jakob
Jakubik, Johannes
Voessing, Michael
Kuehl, Niklas
Satzger, Gerhard
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
In AI-assisted decision-making, a central promise of having a human-in-the-loop is that they should be able to complement the AI system by overriding its wrong recommendations. In practice, however, we often see that humans cannot assess the correctness of AI recommendations and, as a result, adhere to wrong or override correct advice. Different ways of relying on AI recommendations have immediate, yet distinct, implications for decision quality. Unfortunately, reliance and decision quality are often inappropriately conflated in the current literature on AI-assisted decision-making. In this work, we disentangle and formalize the relationship between reliance and decision quality, and we characterize the conditions under which human-AI complementarity is achievable. To illustrate how reliance and decision quality relate to one another, we propose a visual framework and demonstrate its usefulness for interpreting empirical findings, including the effects of interventions like explanations. Overall, our research highlights the importance of distinguishing between reliance behavior and decision quality in AI-assisted decision-making.
title AI Reliance and Decision Quality: Fundamentals, Interdependence, and the Effects of Interventions
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08804