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When Thinking Pays Off: Incentive Alignment for Human-AI Collaboration

Gerhard Satzger, Joshua Holstein, Patrick Hemmer, Wei Sun

Redesigning incentives to reward independent judgment reduces human overreliance on AI advice.

arxiv:2511.09612 v2 · 2025-11-12 · cs.HC

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We empirically evaluate this approach through a behavioral experiment with 180 participants, finding that the proposed mechanism significantly reduces overreliance.

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That the experimental tasks and incentive effects observed in the lab accurately reflect real-world human-AI collaboration settings and that overreliance is primarily driven by incentive misalignment rather than other factors.

C3one line summary

A new incentive mechanism significantly reduces overreliance on AI advice and improves decision quality, demonstrated in a behavioral experiment with 180 participants.

References

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[2] Z. Buçinca, S. Swaroop, A. E. Paluch, F. Doshi-Velez, and K. Z. Gajos. Contrastive explanations that anticipate human misconceptions can improve human decision-making skills. InProceedings of the 2025 2025

[3] Complementarity in human-ai collabo- ration: Concept, sources, and evidence

[4] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task · arXiv:2506.08872

[5] H.-P. Lee, A. Sarkar, L. Tankelevitch, I. Drosos, S. Rintel, R. Banks, and N. Wilson. The impact of generative ai on critical thinking: Self-reported reductions in cognitive effort and confidence effe 2025

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arxiv: 2511.09612 · arxiv_version: 2511.09612v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.09612 · pith_short_12: BDZ4LROTYUZH · pith_short_16: BDZ4LROTYUZHV5H5 · pith_short_8: BDZ4LROT

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