AI -SDM Seminar - Doron Cohen
— 1:30pm
Location:
In Person and Virtual - ET
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Newell-Simon 4305 and Zoom
Speaker:
DORON COHEN
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Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
https://engineering.cmu.edu/directory/bios/cohen-doron.html
Behavioral decision research shows that experience and learning shape how people adopt and use technology and react to changes in their environment. This talk clarifies the implications of these results for safety, compliance, and sustained use in human-AI systems. I will present experimental results on when and why humans over-rely on automation and how design choices reduce system brittleness. I introduce the Operator’s Dilemma, a full-information, incentive-compatible choice task where human and automated operators repeatedly choose whether to perform a costly safety check. Across three studies (N = 970), a Serial design that reveals the automation’s choice before the human decides increased overreliance and accidents, yet was preferred. In contrast, Parallel and a transparent Serial-Reveal design preserved independent checking and reduced accidents. The AI system is held fixed, so results are driven solely by human incentives, information, and learning. A simple opportunity cost model explains the results and yields practical principles for incentives, feedback, and transparency.
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As a behavioral scientist, Doron Cohen focuses on the experimental and computational analysis of behavior, behavioral contexts, and learning. Cohen's research focuses on clarifying some of the complexities of everyday decision-making processes and how these are shaped by various incentive systems. By integrating computational cognitive modeling with structural modeling of environments, he aims to predict the long-term impacts of policy changes and support the evaluation and design of effective interventions. His diverse body of work includes the design of safety measures, taxation systems, incentivization programs, and human-computer interactions.
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