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Special Seminar: Harmanpreet Kaur, "Leveraging Social Theories to Enhance Human-AI Interaction"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Illinois Computer Science
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Feb 22, 2023   10:00 am  
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Originating Calendar
Computer Science Special Seminar Series

Zoom: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/88050646369?pwd=bk11Y25CdloxaTg0NlladnZhOWdTZz09 

Abstract:
Human-AI partnerships are increasingly commonplace. Yet, systems that rely on these partnerships are unable to effectively capture the dynamic needs of people, or explain complex AI reasoning and outputs. The resulting socio-technical gap has led to harmful outcomes such as propagation of biases against marginalized populations and missed edge cases in sensitive domains. My work follows the belief that for human-AI interaction to be effective and safe, technical development in AI must come in concert with an understanding of human-centric cognitive, social, and organizational phenomena. Using human-AI interaction in the context of ML-based decision-support systems as a case study, in this talk, I will discuss my work that explains why interpretability tools do not work in practice. Interpretability tools exacerbate the bounded nature of human rationality, encouraging people to apply cognitive and social heuristics. These heuristics serve as mental shortcuts that make people's decision-making faster by not having to carefully reason about the information being presented. Looking ahead, I will share my research agenda that incorporates social theories to design human-AI systems that not only take advantage of the complementarity between people and AI, but also account for the incompatibilities in how (much) they understand each other.

Bio:
Harman Kaur is a PhD candidate in both the department of Computer Science and the School of Information at the University of Michigan, where she is advised by Eric Gilbert and Cliff Lampe. Her research interests lie in human-AI collaboration and interpretable ML. Specifically, she designs and evaluates human-AI systems such that they effectively incorporate what people and AI are each good at, but also mitigate harms by accounting for the incompatibilities between the two. She has published several papers at top-tier human-computer interaction venues, such as CHI, CSCW, IUI, UIST, and FAccT. She has also completed several internships at Microsoft Research and the Allen Institute for AI, and is a recipient of the Google PhD fellowship. Prior to Michigan, Harman received a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Faculty Host: Brian Bailey

Meeting ID: 880 5064 6369; Password: csillinois

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