How to Design Human-AI Interaction
transform together – the podcast meetup about organizational developmentShow Notes
AI is joining our teams. But does adding more agents, more tokens and faster output actually make us smarter together?
In this episode of transform together, Johannes Schartau talks with Dr. Babak Hemmatian, a research associate at Stony Brook University's AI Innovation Institute, about what happens when people and AI reason as a group. Rather than treating AI as a replacement for an individual worker, Babak looks at the relationships among people, agents, information and decisions.
They explore where humans and AI differ in memory, attention and reasoning; how arrangements such as the "centaur" and AI information broker change collaboration; and why adding too many AI agents can undermine trust. Babak also explains why clear context, deliberate redundancy and human-paced checkpoints may make work more reliable - even when they look inefficient at first.
A conversation about designing hybrid teams for better judgment, not just faster output.
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