MACHINE ASSISTED HUMAN DECISION MAKING

Artificial intelligence is often touted as the ultimate automation technology capable of outperforming humans. It is also feared by some because of its potential to eliminate certain jobs. In this paper, we describe scenarios in which man-machine symbiosis, or properly designed combinations of man and machine, can actually outperform man and machine. We also present a statistical solution to a constrained version of a generic problem in man-machine symbiosis. Specifically, we solve the problem of optimal selection, ordering and presentation of data to a human to solve a class of problems that artificial intelligence can fail to solve on its own, such as fraud detection. The man-machine symbiosis solution we present overcomes human cognitive biases which stand in the way of their rational decision making.