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Main Authors: Xu, Binxia, Bikakis, Antonis, Onah, Daniel, Vlachidis, Andreas, Dickens, Luke
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13919
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author Xu, Binxia
Bikakis, Antonis
Onah, Daniel
Vlachidis, Andreas
Dickens, Luke
author_facet Xu, Binxia
Bikakis, Antonis
Onah, Daniel
Vlachidis, Andreas
Dickens, Luke
contents Given that AI systems are set to play a pivotal role in future decision-making processes, their trustworthiness and reliability are of critical concern. Due to their scale and complexity, modern AI systems resist direct interpretation, and alternative ways are needed to establish trust in those systems, and determine how well they align with human values. We argue that good measures of the information processing similarities between AI and humans, may be able to achieve these same ends. While Representational alignment (RA) approaches measure similarity between the internal states of two systems, the associated data can be expensive and difficult to collect for human systems. In contrast, Behavioural alignment (BA) comparisons are cheaper and easier, but questions remain as to their sensitivity and reliability. We propose two new behavioural alignment metrics misclassification agreement which measures the similarity between the errors of two systems on the same instances, and class-level error similarity which measures the similarity between the error distributions of two systems. We show that our metrics correlate well with RA metrics, and provide complementary information to another BA metric, within a range of domains, and set the scene for a new approach to value alignment.
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spellingShingle Measuring Error Alignment for Decision-Making Systems
Xu, Binxia
Bikakis, Antonis
Onah, Daniel
Vlachidis, Andreas
Dickens, Luke
Artificial Intelligence
Given that AI systems are set to play a pivotal role in future decision-making processes, their trustworthiness and reliability are of critical concern. Due to their scale and complexity, modern AI systems resist direct interpretation, and alternative ways are needed to establish trust in those systems, and determine how well they align with human values. We argue that good measures of the information processing similarities between AI and humans, may be able to achieve these same ends. While Representational alignment (RA) approaches measure similarity between the internal states of two systems, the associated data can be expensive and difficult to collect for human systems. In contrast, Behavioural alignment (BA) comparisons are cheaper and easier, but questions remain as to their sensitivity and reliability. We propose two new behavioural alignment metrics misclassification agreement which measures the similarity between the errors of two systems on the same instances, and class-level error similarity which measures the similarity between the error distributions of two systems. We show that our metrics correlate well with RA metrics, and provide complementary information to another BA metric, within a range of domains, and set the scene for a new approach to value alignment.
title Measuring Error Alignment for Decision-Making Systems
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13919