Project funded by DARPA
PI: Jonathan May
The Friction for Accountability in Conversational Transactions (FACT) Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) opportunity will explore human-AI dialogue-based methods that avoid over-trust through reflective reasoning (“friction”) that reveals implicit assumptions between dialogue partners, enabling accountable decision-making in complex environments. FACT aims to develop and evaluate human-AI conversation-shaping algorithms that 1) capture mutual assumptions, views, and intentions based on dialogue history, 2) auto-assess the consequences of potential actions and the level of accountability for responses, and 3) reveal implicit costs and assumptions to the user, prompting critical analysis, and proposing course changes as appropriate.
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Jordan Boyd-Graber Associate Professor, Computer Science (UMD) |
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Jonathan Kummerfeld PI, Sydney |
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Jonathan May PI, USC ISI |
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