Workshop on Human and Machine Decisions

@ NeurIPS 2021

Understanding human decision-making is a key focus of behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience with far-reaching applications, from public policy to industry.

Recently, advances in machine learning have resulted in better predictive models of human decisions and even enabled new theories of decision-making. On the other hand, machine learning systems are increasingly being used to make decisions that affect people, including hiring, resource allocation, and paroles.

These lines of work are deeply interconnected: learning what people value is crucial both to predict their own decisions and to make good decisions for them. In this workshop, we will bring together experts from the wide array of disciplines concerned with human and machine decisions to exchange ideas. Read more here.

Keynote Talks

Modeling Human Decision-Making: Never Ending Learning

Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan)

New Perspectives on Habit Formation from Machine Learning and Neuroeconomics

Colin Camerer (Caltech)

Policing, Pain, and Politics: Diagnosing Human Bias and Error with Machine Learning

Emma Pierson (Cornell)

Evaluating and Improving Economic Models

Drew Fudenberg (MIT)

Choices and Rankings with Irrelevant Alternatives

Johan Ugander (Stanford)

Integrating Explanation and Prediction in Computational Social Science

Duncan J. Watts (UPenn)

Panel I: Human decisions
Moderator: Annie Liang

Jennifer Trueblood

Vanderbilt

Alex Peysakhovich

Facebook

Angela Yu

UC San Diego

Ori Plonsky

Technion

Tal Yarkoni

Twitter

Daniel Björkegren

Brown

Panel II: Machine decisions
Moderator: Brian Christian

Anca Dragan

UC Berkeley

Karen Levy

Cornell

Hima Lakkaraju

Harvard

Ariel Rosenfeld

Bar-Ilan

Maithra Raghu

Google

Irene Chen

MIT

Organizers

Daniel Reichman

WPI

Kiran Tomlinson

Cornell

Annie Liang

Northwestern

Thomas L. Griffiths

Princeton