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This paper addresses the critical gap in AI oversight by proposing a framework that explicitly binds model uncertainty to specific human actions, rather than just displaying confidence scores. The authors introduce ActionCue, a visualization tool that makes these decision-process compositions inspectable across domains like healthcare and disaster forecasting. This work advances process transparency, enabling humans to understand not only what an AI is uncertain about but precisely how that uncertainty dictates the required response.
Visualizing Uncertainty-to-Action Composition for Human Oversight
arXiv:2608.16428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems often disclose uncertainty, yet they rarely make clear what response that uncertainty should trigger. Most uncertainty visualizations encode uncertainty in model outputs, leaving users to discern the most appropriate course of action. A second region of the design space--uncertainty in the decision process itself, including how multiple uncertainty conditions compose into an oversight response-- remains comparatively underexplored. We address this gap with two coupled contributions. First, we introduce an uncertainty-to-action binding framework that composes multiple uncertainty conditions into a single oversight response under a precedence policy with a contextual safety modifier. That response concerns whether and how an AI-supported decision may proceed, not the substantive domain decision itself. Second, we present ActionCue, a process-transparency visualization that renders that composition explicit. We demonstrate the approach through a three-way comparison with confidence-only and data-level uncertainty displays, using worked cases from healthcare, credit assessment, and disaster forecasting. Together, the framework specifies how uncertainty conditions are resolved into an oversight response, and the visualization makes that resolution inspectable rather than implicit.
Abstract:Artificial intelligence systems often disclose uncertainty, yet they rarely make clear what response that uncertainty should trigger. Most uncertainty visualizations encode uncertainty in model outputs, leaving users to discern the most appropriate course of action. A second region of the design space--uncertainty in the decision process itself, including how multiple uncertainty conditions compose into an oversight response-- remains comparatively underexplored. We address this gap with two coupled contributions. First, we introduce an uncertainty-to-action binding framework that composes multiple uncertainty conditions into a single oversight response under a precedence policy with a contextual safety modifier. That response concerns whether and how an AI-supported decision may proceed, not the substantive domain decision itself. Second, we present ActionCue, a process-transparency visualization that renders that composition explicit. We demonstrate the approach through a three-way comparison with confidence-only and data-level uncertainty displays, using worked cases from healthcare, credit assessment, and disaster forecasting. Together, the framework specifies how uncertainty conditions are resolved into an oversight response, and the visualization makes that resolution inspectable rather than implicit.
Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2608.16428 [cs.HC]
(or arXiv:2608.16428v1 [cs.HC] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.16428 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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