The researchers found that although it is generally believed that the interpretability of the model can help improve the user's trust in the AI system, in the actual experiment, the global and local interpretability does not lead to a stable and significant trust improvement. Conversely, feedback (i.e., the output of the results) has a more significant effect on increasing user trust in the AI. However, this increased trust does not directly translate into an equivalent improvement in performance.
The researchers found that although it is generally believed that the interpretability of the model can help improve the user's trust in the AI system, in the actual experiment, the global and local interpretability does not lead to a stable and significant trust improvement. Conversely, feedback (i.e., the output of the results) has a more significant effect on increasing user trust in the AI. However, this increased trust does not directly translate into an equivalent improvement in performance.
The Interpretability of Artificial Intelligence and the Impact of Outcome Feedback on Trust: A Comparative Study | Xue Zhirong's knowledge base
To assess trust more accurately, the researchers used behavioral trust (WoA), a measure that takes into account the difference between the user's predictions and the AI's recommendations, and is independent of the model's accuracy. By comparing WoA under different conditions, researchers can analyze the relationship between trust and performance.
Q1: How does feedback affect users' trust in AI?
Q2: Does explainability necessarily enhance users' trust in AI?
A2: Although it is generally believed that the explanatory nature of the model helps to improve user trust, the experimental results show that this enhancement is not significant and not as effective as feedback. In specific cases, such as areas of low expertise, some form of interpretation may result in only a modest increase in appropriate trust.
A3: The study found that the feedback of the results can improve the accuracy of the user's predictions (reducing the absolute error), thereby improving the performance of working with AI. However, interpretability does not have as much impact on user task performance as it does on trust. This may mean that we should pay more attention to how to effectively use feedback mechanisms to improve the usefulness and effectiveness of AI-assisted decision-making.