HCII Seminar Series - Mark Riedl
Speaker
Mark Riedl
Professor, Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing, and Associate Director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center
When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305
Video
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Description
"Human-Centered Explainable AI"
Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly involved in high-stakes decision-making, such as healthcare, financial, and educational determinations. Many have called for explainable AI (XAI), which are AI systems that provide human-understandable explanations for their reasoning or responses. Through explanations, developers and researchers aim to create AI systems that allow human oversight and improved decision-making while fostering trust. While XAI has traditionally focused on developers in their pursuit for improved system performance and fairness, I consider the question of how XAI systems can support non-technical end-users. A core assumption of XAI is that explanations are actionable. That is, they change what users know, enabling them to act using the AI. What makes explanations actionable for end-users? What can happen if we ignore actionability? What human factor dimensions might we be overlooking in our AI designs? In this talk, I will attempt to focalize explainable AI on these questions and give evidence on how asking these questions can improve outcomes for users of AI systems and open up new research challenges in HCI and AI.
Speaker's Bio
Dr. Mark Riedl is a Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and Associate Director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center. Dr. Riedl’s research focuses on human-centered artificial intelligence—the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that understand and interact with human users in more natural ways. Dr. Riedl’s recent work has focused on story understanding and generation, computational creativity, explainable AI, and teaching virtual agents to behave safely. His research is supported by the NSF, DARPA, ONR, the U.S. Army, U.S. Health and Human Services, Disney, Google, Meta, and Amazon. He is the recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award and an NSF CAREER Award.
Speaker's Website
https://eilab.gatech.edu/mark-riedl.html
Host
Sauvik Das