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Q3 - AI in Data, Behavior, and Human Systems with Berkeley Dietvorst, BS, PhD
Why Seeing an Algorithm Fail Makes You Trust It Less — Even When It's Still Better Than You
Paths of Curiosity in an AI World
What if the algorithm was actually right and you still refused to trust it?
Dr. Berkeley Dietvorst discovered that people abandon algorithms the moment they see them make a mistake — even when those algorithms consistently outperform humans. And then he found something even more surprising: giving people just a tiny amount of control over the output is often enough to fix it.
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Dietvorst, Professor of Marketing at the University of…
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