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arxiv 2311.00706 v1 pith:JCUVMO4O submitted 2023-10-10 cs.HC cs.AI

Can AI Mitigate Human Perceptual Biases? A Pilot Study

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We present results from a pilot experiment to measure if machine recommendations can debias human perceptual biases in visualization tasks. We specifically studied the ``pull-down'' effect, i.e., people underestimate the average position of lines, for the task of estimating the ensemble average of data points in line charts. These line charts can show for example temperature or precipitation in 12 months. Six participants estimated ensemble averages with or without an AI assistant. The assistant, when available, responded at three different speeds to assemble the conditions of a human collaborator who may delay his or her responses. Our pilot study showed that participants were faster with AI assistance in ensemble tasks, compared to the baseline without AI assistance. Although ``pull-down'' biases were reduced, the effect of AI assistance was not statistically significant. Also, delaying AI responses had no significant impact on human decision accuracy. We discuss the implications of these preliminary results for subsequent studies.

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