When Should Someone Trust An AI Assistant’s Predictions?

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People decide to trust someone based on their previous interactions and experiences. Scientists have looked into taking advantage of this phenomenon to teach people to trust an AI’s decision making more. In the onboarding process, they provided examples of AI working with humans. Afterwards, they paired up the participants and the AI to solve a series of questions that tested the participants’ trust in their AI “teammates”. Read full article here

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