DBASSE Hosts First Webinar in 2024 Spring Hauser Webinar Series

On May 23, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) hosted the first of two webinars in their Hauser 2024 Spring Webinar Series titled, “Navigating the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Achieving Human-AI Harmony.” The webinar focused on the 2022 report titled Human-AI Teaming: State of the Art and Research Needs. The panel consisted of a diverse group of researchers from varying universities and organizations focused on artificial intelligence (AI).

The panelists discussed changes in AI, including increased communication between real AI and humans, advancements in ethics of human-AI teaming, and ongoing research to fill the gap in AI trust research. With heightened initiative for long-term AI research, panelists assert that further studies should address societal and behavioral challenges related to human-AI teaming. The report claimed that humans and AI both have biases that, if unaddressed in development, could lead to the creation of new types of biases. Another panelist claimed that although many aspects of human-human teams are effective for human-AI teams, some aspects of teaming must be changed for human-AI teams to be as effective as possible. The report recommended that humans and AI develop a shared situational awareness, but this is met with the challenge of incongruent cognitive models among humans and AI. In addition, a co-author, Dr. Erin Chiou, stated that trust among humans and AI is critical for their success in teams as AI becomes more autonomous. The panelists collectively called for further social and behavioral research on human-AI teaming.

A video recording of the Hauser webinar is available here. Stay tuned for the second webinar in this series, scheduled for July 25.