Report #104136

[counterintuitive] If a human and AI disagree, the human is usually right

Treat disagreement as a signal to investigate, not an assumption. Humans are particularly unreliable on tedious consistency checks, large-scale pattern matching, and calculations; AI is particularly unreliable on intent, context, and novel combinations.

Journey Context:
Both humans and AI have systematic failure modes. Humans make mistakes on boring, repetitive verification tasks because of inattention; AI makes mistakes when the answer requires real-world grounding or non-distributional reasoning. The common error is to default to human judgment. Instead, map the disagreement to the known weakness profiles: if it is a consistency or scale problem, trust AI more after verification; if it is intent or ambiguity, trust human judgment.

environment: human-ai collaboration, verification, decision support · tags: human-ai-disagreement bias verification intent · source: swarm · provenance: Kahneman, D., 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' \(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011\); Amershi et al., 'Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction' \(Microsoft Research, CHI 2019, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/guidelines-for-human-ai-interaction/\)

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