Advancements in Human-Centric AI

The field of artificial intelligence is shifting towards a more human-centric approach, focusing on augmenting human cognition and decision-making rather than replacing it. Recent developments have highlighted the importance of process-oriented support, where AI tools provide incremental assistance to help users solve tasks themselves, rather than offering end-to-end solutions. This approach has shown promise in addressing the challenges of counterfactuals in AI deployment decisions, where the expected utility of AI usage can have significant impacts on stakeholders. Furthermore, the integration of AI in areas such as systematic long-term investing, group recommender systems, and assistive navigation technologies has demonstrated the potential for AI to enhance human capabilities and improve outcomes. Noteworthy papers in this area include: Augmenting Human Cognition With Generative AI, which explores the challenges of end-to-end solutions and the benefits of process-oriented support. DBOT: Artificial Intelligence for Systematic Long-Term Investing, which presents a system capable of valuing any publicly traded company and highlights the research challenges involved in raising its capability to that of human experts. AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself, which introduces an alternative interaction model where AI outputs build upon users' own decision-making rationales, leading to better integration into the decision-making process and slightly better outcomes.

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Augmenting Human Cognition With Generative AI: Lessons From AI-Assisted Decision-Making

When is using AI the rational choice? The importance of counterfactuals in AI deployment decisions

DBOT: Artificial Intelligence for Systematic Long-Term Investing

Widening the Role of Group Recommender Systems with CAJO

To Give or Not to Give? The Impacts of Strategically Withheld Recourse

User-Centered Insights into Assistive Navigation Technologies for Individuals with Visual Impairment

Design and use of devices to assist movement of the upper limb: review of the literature

AI, Help Me Think$\unicode{x2014}$but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support

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