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Don’t Just Tell Me, Ask Me: AI Systems that Intelligently Frame Explanations as Questions Improve Human Logical Discernment Accuracy over Causal AI explanations
This project presents the idea of AI-explanations that reframe information as questions to actively engage people's thinking and scaffold their thinking. In a study with 210 subjects, we compared the effects of AI systems that ask questions to systems telling people answers and found that AI-framed questioning significantly increased human discernment accuracy of logically flawed information. Read more.
Keywords:
Human-AI Interaction, Assisted Reasoning, Cognitive Enhancement, Augmented Humans, Argumentation Mining, Natural Language Processing.
Publication:
ACM CHI 2023.
Press:
”A chatbot that asks questions could help you spot when it makes no sense”, MIT Technology Review
Role:
Initiator and concept-creator, developer of machine learning model, conductor of experimental study, lead on write-up.
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