Logical Interference: Using AI to Correct Flaws in Human Judgment

Humans and machines have disparate skills, with humans exemplifying higher-level cognitive skills such as problem-solving, decision-making, and creativity. In contrast, machines have an enormous computational capacity that no human could hope to match in accuracy or speed. These disparate sets of skills make humans and artificial intelligence (AI) ideal teammates to meet the demands of the most complex problem scenarios, including in the future Multi-Domain Operations Battlespace. To optimize performance, these skills should be strategically leveraged to form the basis for AI decision support software developments. This paper discusses decision-support systems, including their functions, current configurations, and whether these configurations are designed with the strengths of humans and AI in mind. A new model for decision-support systems offers an alternative to the traditional model that can maximize the benefits they provide each other in meeting mission goals.