The Impact and Feasibility of Self-Confidence Shaping for AI-Assisted Decision-Making

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Main Authors: Takayanagi, Takehiro, Hashimoto, Ryuji, Chen, Chung-Chi, Izumi, Kiyoshi
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Published: 2025
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author Takayanagi, Takehiro
Hashimoto, Ryuji
Chen, Chung-Chi
Izumi, Kiyoshi
author_facet Takayanagi, Takehiro
Hashimoto, Ryuji
Chen, Chung-Chi
Izumi, Kiyoshi
contents In AI-assisted decision-making, it is crucial but challenging for humans to appropriately rely on AI, especially in high-stakes domains such as finance and healthcare. This paper addresses this problem from a human-centered perspective by presenting an intervention for self-confidence shaping, designed to calibrate self-confidence at a targeted level. We first demonstrate the impact of self-confidence shaping by quantifying the upper-bound improvement in human-AI team performance. Our behavioral experiments with 121 participants show that self-confidence shaping can improve human-AI team performance by nearly 50% by mitigating both over- and under-reliance on AI. We then introduce a self-confidence prediction task to identify when our intervention is needed. Our results show that simple machine-learning models achieve 67% accuracy in predicting self-confidence. We further illustrate the feasibility of such interventions. The observed relationship between sentiment and self-confidence suggests that modifying sentiment could be a viable strategy for shaping self-confidence. Finally, we outline future research directions to support the deployment of self-confidence shaping in a real-world scenario for effective human-AI collaboration.
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spellingShingle The Impact and Feasibility of Self-Confidence Shaping for AI-Assisted Decision-Making
Takayanagi, Takehiro
Hashimoto, Ryuji
Chen, Chung-Chi
Izumi, Kiyoshi
Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
In AI-assisted decision-making, it is crucial but challenging for humans to appropriately rely on AI, especially in high-stakes domains such as finance and healthcare. This paper addresses this problem from a human-centered perspective by presenting an intervention for self-confidence shaping, designed to calibrate self-confidence at a targeted level. We first demonstrate the impact of self-confidence shaping by quantifying the upper-bound improvement in human-AI team performance. Our behavioral experiments with 121 participants show that self-confidence shaping can improve human-AI team performance by nearly 50% by mitigating both over- and under-reliance on AI. We then introduce a self-confidence prediction task to identify when our intervention is needed. Our results show that simple machine-learning models achieve 67% accuracy in predicting self-confidence. We further illustrate the feasibility of such interventions. The observed relationship between sentiment and self-confidence suggests that modifying sentiment could be a viable strategy for shaping self-confidence. Finally, we outline future research directions to support the deployment of self-confidence shaping in a real-world scenario for effective human-AI collaboration.
title The Impact and Feasibility of Self-Confidence Shaping for AI-Assisted Decision-Making
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14311