Summary of Does Ai Help Humans Make Better Decisions? a Statistical Evaluation Framework For Experimental and Observational Studies, by Eli Ben-michael et al.
Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies
by Eli Ben-Michael, D. James Greiner, Melody Huang, Kosuke Imai, Zhichao Jiang, Sooahn Shin
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: General Economics (econ.GN); Applications (stat.AP); Methodology (stat.ME)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new methodological framework to empirically evaluate whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps humans make better decisions compared to human-alone or AI-alone systems. The framework uses standard classification metrics based on baseline potential outcomes and accounts for unconfounded treatment assignment. The authors compare the performance of three decision-making systems: human-alone, human-with-AI, and AI-alone, including individualized treatment assignments. They also provide guidance on when AI recommendations should be provided to a human-decision maker and when one should follow such recommendations. Applying this methodology to a randomized controlled trial evaluating a pretrial risk assessment instrument, the authors find that AI recommendations do not improve classification accuracy and actually lead to worse performance when replacing human judges. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about how well Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help people make good decisions. It’s like a math problem – we need to figure out if using AI makes things better or worse. The authors came up with a special way to test this using numbers and statistics. They compared three ways of making decisions: just humans, humans using AI, and computers alone. They also looked at when it might be good to use AI recommendations and when it’s not. In their own study, they tested how well AI did in helping judges make decisions about bail. Surprisingly, the AI didn’t make things better – sometimes it even made them worse. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification
