Human-AI Decision Making

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The field examines how people and AI can combine judgment, divide tasks, or transfer decision authority, especially when decisions are uncertain or consequential. Common approaches include calibrated advice, selective prediction and deferral, adaptive routing and ensembles, preference elicitation, and explanations designed to support human review. Researchers test these methods in behavioral experiments and applied settings such as clinical diagnosis, finance, negotiation, and public services, measuring both decision outcomes and interaction behavior. A central tension is that AI assistance can improve performance yet also encourage overreliance, weaken human skills, or shift influence and responsibility; gains depend on task context, complementary strengths, and whether people can detect when the AI is wrong.

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  1. When Should AI Decide, Defer, and Deviate? Responsible Automation for Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation

    Oct 28, 2026Madeleine Pollack, Thomas Daillak, Mehmet Toner +3Responsible AIClinical Decision-Making

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 · Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 · Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115

  2. Words or Deeds? How LLMs Predict Users' Decisions in Human-Agent Dialogue

    Oct 27, 2026Baiqiao Zhang, Shuai Ma, Zhifeng Liao +9Human-AI Decision MakingHuman Behavior Prediction

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Shandong University, Weihai, China +1

  3. AI Teaches Humans to Handle Complexity in the Game of Go

    Oct 23, 2026Adamo Cerioli, Vito D. P. Servedio, Gabriele Cerioli +2Human-AI Decision MakingHuman-AI Complementarity

    Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 7/A, 43124, Parma, Italy · Complexity Science Hub, Metternichgasse 8, 1030, Vienna, Austria · Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Via A. Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy +1

  4. When Do Humans and Machines Truly Complement Each Other? Formal Conditions and Empirical Evidence for Human-AI Synergy

    Oct 20, 2026Andrea Campagner, Federico Cabitza, Vincenzo CrupiHuman-AI ComplementarityHuman-AI Decision Making

    Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy · IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy · Digital Health & Wellbeing Center, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy +1

  5. When Interpretations Persist: Downstream Influence in Gaze-Aware Assistants

    Oct 18, 2026Mingcong Ding, Chenyan Zhang, Zhuojiang Cai +3Human-AI InteractionHuman-AI Decision Making

    Human-Centered Technologies for Learning, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany

  6. From Proposal to Execution: Modeling Interaction Semantics in Shared Autonomy

    Oct 18, 2026Shashank Shekhar, Laurent Jeanpierre, Abdel-Illah MouaddibHuman-AI Decision MakingShared Autonomy

    Université de Caen Normandie, GREYC-CNRS UMR 6072, Caen, France

  7. Indirect Influences of Artificial Intelligence Advice on Complex Sepsis Treatment Decisions

    Oct 16, 2026Venkatesh Sivaraman, Joel Levin, Eric P. Mason +6AI-Assisted Decision MakingHuman-AI Decision Making

    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States · Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States · Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States +3

  8. Following Delegation Traces to Study Human Oversight in Interaction with Multimodal AI

    Oct 15, 2026Agnese Chiatti, Matteo Matteucci, Viola SchiaffonatiHuman Oversight of AIHuman-AI Decision Making

    AI and Robotics Lab (AIRLab), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  9. Calibrating LLM Explanations to Human Decisions with Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 12, 2026Dong Shu, Ziyang Guo, Negar Kamali +2Explainable Artificial IntelligenceHuman-AI Decision Making

    Northwestern University

  10. Better together? A performance theory of human-machine skill policies under generalization difficulty

    Oct 12, 2026Riccardo ZanardelliHuman-AI ComplementarityHuman-AI Decision Making

  11. Trust Hinders Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment

    Oct 10, 2026Michaela Benk, Kacper SokolHuman-AI Decision MakingAI Alignment

    Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland · Department of Informatics, USI Lugano, Switzerland

  12. Too Late to Prune: Generative AI, the Screen, and Team Creative Decisions

    Oct 10, 2026Difang Huang, Shumin Yu, Fadong Chen +1Human-AI Decision MakingHuman-AI Co-Creation

    Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  13. When Pleasing the User Compromises Care: AI Sycophancy in Caregiver-Mediated Healthcare

    Oct 9, 2026Priyadarsi Mishra, Arjun Beniwal, Ziyu Yi +2LLM SycophancyHuman-AI Decision Making

    Stanford University · Texas A&M University

  14. Incremental Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Human-in-the-Loop Decision Support

    Oct 8, 2026Federico Mazzoni, Andrea FaillaHuman-AI Decision MakingRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    Independent Researcher · Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Italy

  15. Justice After Identity: Large Language Models and the View from Everywhere

    Oct 6, 2026W. Russell NeumanMoral Reasoning in Language ModelsMoral Reasoning

  16. Careful Judge: Safe and Efficient Human-AI Collaborative Decision Making

    Oct 6, 2026Chenyu Zhang, Rachel Luo, Boyi Li +3Human-AI Decision MakingHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    MIT · NVIDIA · NVIDIA, Stanford University

  17. Novice Reliance Calibration in AI-Assisted Decision Making: The Role of Explanations and Self-Assessment

    Oct 6, 2026Eun Jeong Kang, Peter, Duan +1Human-AI Decision MakingHuman-AI Collaboration

    Xianpi · McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  18. DelegationBench: Measuring When AI Agents Should Ask Before Acting

    Oct 4, 2026Shiva PochampallyLLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  19. Bounded Reasoning: Cognitive Hierarchy in Human-versus-AI Cyber Defense

    Oct 4, 2026Zahra Aref, Sheng Wei, Narayan B. MandayamProspect TheoryHuman-AI Decision Making

    Rutgers University

  20. Judgement in the Age of Jev: From Evaluation Scarcity to Evaluation Abundance

    Oct 1, 2026Richard HillAutomated EvaluationHuman-AI Decision Making

    Department of Computer Science, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK.

  21. Should I stay or should I show? Learning to selectively disclose information

    Sep 30, 2026Carlotta Giacchetta, Alessando Bogani, Cesare Barbera +4Value of InformationHuman-AI Decision Making

    University of Trento, Trento, Italy · University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy · ETH AI Center & ETH, Zürich, Switzerland +1

  22. Referential Uncertainty in Human--AI Collaboration

    Sep 30, 2026Christian Poelitz, Finale Doshi-Velez, Siân LindleyLLM Uncertainty EstimationHuman-AI Decision Making

    Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK · Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

  23. Rational Clarification by Assistive Agents via Value-of-Information Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026T. Duy Nguyen-Hien, Yee Whye Teh, Wee Sun Lee +1Value of InformationClarification Question Generation

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford · Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

  24. ThuRunel: Dynamic Decoupling for Structured Advisory Dialogue

    Sep 28, 2026Yuyan ChenConversational AgentsHuman-AI Decision Making

    ModelsLive Inc.

  25. An auditable conditional-strategy framework for open-ended decision-making in complex lung cancer

    Sep 24, 2026Daoyun Wang, Zhicheng Huang, Huaiyuan Sun +39Clinical Decision SupportClinical Decision-Making

  26. SMARtCARE: Privacy-Preserving Agentic AI Systems for Bounded-Autonomy Clinical Decision Support

    Sep 24, 2026Srini Ramaswamy, Deveeshree NayakClinical Decision SupportAgentic AI

    DNRS.ai USA · University of Washington, USA

  27. Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer

    Sep 23, 2026Davood Wadi, Yu MaAgentic CommerceLLM Decision-Making

    Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  28. Learning to Defer with Guidance on Real World Medical Data

    Sep 22, 2026Emma Sun, Joshua Strong, Alison NobleLearning to DeferHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK

  29. Toward Responsible AI-Augmented Cyber Defense: Pattern Recognition, Defense-in-Depth, and the Case for Human-AI Collaboration

    Sep 22, 2026Mustafa S. Aljumaily, Hayder Kareem Abed, Nawar S. AlseelawiCybersecurityHuman-AI Decision Making

    Research and Development (R&D) Department, Daw Alfada Company, Baghdad, Iraq · CEO, Daw Alfada Company, Baghdad, Iraq · University of Misan, Maysan, Iraq

  30. Deflecting the Value Compass: Interacting with Large Language Models Temporarily Shifts Human Value Priorities Toward Personal Focus

    Sep 22, 2026Hasibur Rahman, Malak Sadek, Smit DesaiAI-Assisted Decision MakingHuman-AI Decision Making

    Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom