Better Together? The Role of Explanations in Supporting Novices in Individual and Collective Deliberations about AI

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Autori principali: Schmude, Timothée, Koesten, Laura, Möller, Torsten, Tschiatschek, Sebastian
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author Schmude, Timothée
Koesten, Laura
Möller, Torsten
Tschiatschek, Sebastian
author_facet Schmude, Timothée
Koesten, Laura
Möller, Torsten
Tschiatschek, Sebastian
contents Deploying AI systems in public institutions can have far-reaching consequences for many people, making it a matter of public interest. Providing opportunities for stakeholders to come together, understand these systems, and debate their merits and harms is thus essential. Explainable AI often focuses on individuals, but deliberation benefits from group settings, which are underexplored. To address this gap, we present findings from an interview study with 8 focus groups and 12 individuals. Our findings provide insight into how explanations support AI novices in deliberating alone and in groups. Participants used modular explanations with four information categories to solve tasks and decide about an AI system's deployment. We found that the explanations supported groups in creating shared understanding and in finding arguments for and against the system's deployment. In comparison, individual participants engaged with explanations in more depth and performed better in the study tasks, but missed an exchange with others. Based on our findings, we provide suggestions on how explanations should be designed to work in group settings and describe their potential use in real-world contexts. With this, our contributions inform XAI research that aims to enable AI novices to understand and deliberate AI systems in the public sector.
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spellingShingle Better Together? The Role of Explanations in Supporting Novices in Individual and Collective Deliberations about AI
Schmude, Timothée
Koesten, Laura
Möller, Torsten
Tschiatschek, Sebastian
Human-Computer Interaction
Deploying AI systems in public institutions can have far-reaching consequences for many people, making it a matter of public interest. Providing opportunities for stakeholders to come together, understand these systems, and debate their merits and harms is thus essential. Explainable AI often focuses on individuals, but deliberation benefits from group settings, which are underexplored. To address this gap, we present findings from an interview study with 8 focus groups and 12 individuals. Our findings provide insight into how explanations support AI novices in deliberating alone and in groups. Participants used modular explanations with four information categories to solve tasks and decide about an AI system's deployment. We found that the explanations supported groups in creating shared understanding and in finding arguments for and against the system's deployment. In comparison, individual participants engaged with explanations in more depth and performed better in the study tasks, but missed an exchange with others. Based on our findings, we provide suggestions on how explanations should be designed to work in group settings and describe their potential use in real-world contexts. With this, our contributions inform XAI research that aims to enable AI novices to understand and deliberate AI systems in the public sector.
title Better Together? The Role of Explanations in Supporting Novices in Individual and Collective Deliberations about AI
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11449