Inside the High-Stakes Decisions of the NFL Draft On NFL draft day, every team has the chance to win — or lose — big. With millions of dollars on the line and just minutes to make a final decision on each pick, a single choice can shape a franchise f...

With the NFL draft approaching, Carnegie Mellon University experts Steve Chase, Cleotilde Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social), and Tim Derdenger explore decision making in these types of uncertain, high pressure, dynamic environments.

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#CMU #nfldraft #decisionmaking

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A Perspective examines how human-AI teams can be effective, transparent, trustworthy and fundamentally human-centered. The authors draw insights from cognitive science, AI, human factors, organizational behavior, and ethics. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/CYJj50YxES0

Toward a science of human–AI teaming for decision-making: A complementarity framework Abstract. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical decisions involving health, safety, finance, and governance, the key challenge is no

Read this new paper led by @cotyg.bsky.social, titled "Toward a science of human–AI teaming for decision-making: A complementarity framework." Learn how cognitive science, human factors, organizational behavior can improve Human-AI decision making.
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#HCI #HumanAI #AI

Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI - Cleotilde Gonzalez, Tailia Malloy, 2026 This article calls for complementary human-AI intelligence. Rather than redefining intelligence to fit machine capabilities, we argue for designing AI that comp...

Read Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and Tailia Malloy's new paper “Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI,” in Current Directions in Psychological Science! Learn about "complementary intelligence" in Human/AI systems!
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#AI #CognitiveScience

AI-SDM Director, Aarti Singh, and Co-Director, Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) will present a tutorial "Human-Centered AI: Challenges and Opportunities" at the AAAI (@aaai.org) Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Learn more about their tutorial here:
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#AAAI26 #CMU

Anu Aggarwal is at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) presenting work titled "Evidence of Cognitive Biases in Capture-the-Flag Cybersecurity Competitions." Exploiting cognitive biases may help us design more robust protections against cyber attacks!

#HICSS #CMU #PicoCTF

As the year winds down, DDMLab members enjoy some of our annual holiday traditions!

2025 Financial Impact Report Video YouTube video by Carnegie Mellon University

DDMLab director Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and her work with AI-SDM are featured in a new video accompanying the Department of Finance's annual report. She highlights learning more about the benefits and capabilities of human-AI collaborations.
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#CMU #AI-SDM

Last week Coty (@cotyg.bsky.social) spoke at the Translational Data Analytics Institute at Ohio State. She discussed the concept of Cognitive AI, which emphasizes how humans and AI can support each other in dynamic environments.
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#HumanAI #AI #CMU #OhioState #AISDM #TDAI

Check out Tailia Malloy's (@tailiamalloy.bsky.social) new paper "Improving online anti-phishing training using cognitive large language models" in Computers in Human Behavior. Learn about crafting training emails and how cognitive LLM's can enhance learning!

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#phishing #LLM

Last weekend, DDMLab member Xiaohong Cai traveled to California to observe disaster management training with the American Red Cross Training Services.

A major goal of our lab is developing artificial agents to assist professional relief managers during disasters.

#AmericanRedCross #HumanAI #AI

A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making - Nature Reviews Psychology Complex decision-making tasks can be addressed with artificial intelligence (AI) systems that complement human capabilities. In this Perspective, Gonzalez and Heidari provide a conceptual framework to...

Read our new paper “A cognitive approach to human–AI complementarity in dynamic decision-making” published with Springer Nature in Nature Portfolio-Nature Reviews Psychology.

We examine how Cognitive AI can help design systems that complement human capabilities.

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We are currently immersed in Part I of the "Modeling and Measuring Human Decisions" tutorial at our Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making workshop! Led by Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez and ... We are currently immersed in Part I of the "Modeling and Measuring Human Decisions" tutorial at our Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making workshop! Led by Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez and Dr. Ngoc N...

Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) and former DDMLab member Ngoc Nguyen discussing cognitive modeling and Instance-Based Learning Theory at the AI-SDM annual workshop!
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#ai #societaldecisionmaking #nsf #humanai #decisionmaking #workshop #innovation #aivo | NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (NSF AI-SDM) Are you ready? Because we are! The excitement is building for our workshop on Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making, kicking off tomorrow at Carnegie Mellon University's Cohen University Cente...

The DDMLab is ready! The NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (NSF AI-SDM)'s annual workshop brings together leading experts on human-AI complementarity. We are honored to join them!
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The DDMLab is proud to announce its 17th issue of the annual lab newsletter. The newsletter features updates on the progress of our work and news from our lab members. We hope you enjoy it!

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Read how dimensions of spatial coordination influence collective intelligence and group performance in former DDMLab member Ngoc Nguyen's paper "Measuring Implicit Spatial Coordination in Teams" presented at the ACM (@acm.org) 2025 Collective Intelligence Conference!

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Setting and Adjusting Thresholds in an Optimal Stopping Task - Bugbee & Gonzalez - CogSci 2025 YouTube video by Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory

Listen to Erin Bugbee at CogSci 2025 discuss how people set and adjust thresholds and whether this affects search behavior and learning over time.
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#CogSci2025
@cogscisociety.bsky.social

Training Users Against Human and GPT-4 Generated Social Engineering Attacks Social engineering attacks such as phishing emails remain a critical method for cybercriminals to exploit sensitive data. Although the threat of AI-generated content in such attacks is growing, curren...

Our paper, Training Users Against Human and GPT-4 Generated Social Engineering Attacks, led by Tai Malloy has won the best paper award at the 7TH International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust.

Congratulations to Tai, Maria, Fei, and Coty!
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Experimental evaluation of cognitive agents for collaboration in human-autonomy cyber defense teams Autonomous agents are becoming increasingly prevalent and capable of collaborating with humans on interdependent tasks as teammates. There is increasi…

In a new paper in "Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans," led by Yinuo Du, we explore how autonomous teammates’ abilities/competencies impact team outcomes using the Team Defense Game, a platform for investigating teaming in cyber defense scenarios.

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CogSci 2025 - Cognitive Science Society

The DDMLab will be well represented at the Cognitive Science Society's (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) annual conference CogSci 2025! Erin Bugbee & Roderick Seow will present a poster & full paper, and Ty Malloy will present a poster & abstract.
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#CogSci2025

DDMLab members and collaborators, led by Yinuo Du, have had their paper "Experimental Evaluation of Cognitive Agents for Collaboration in Human-Autonomy Cyber Defense Teams" accepted in the journal Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. Congratulations!

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Anu Aggarwal has had her paper "Cognitive Biases in Cyber Attacker Decision-Making: Translating Behavioral Insights into Cybersecurity" accepted at the 2025 Active Defense & Deception / IEEE EuroS&P Workshop! This workshop promotes proactive engagement with attackers during cyber attacks.

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Allstot, Choset, Gonzalez Elected AAAS Fellows Carnegie Mellon University’s Howie Choset and Cleotilde “Coty” Gonzalez have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@aaas.org), the world’s largest general scientific society! The distinction is a lifetime honor achievement within the organization.

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#CMU #AAAS

Women in Science Highlight Mentorship, Outreach as Integral to Career Success At Carnegie Mellon, women in the sciences contribute to advancement and innovations at the forefront of discovery, while lifting each other along the way.

For Women's History Month Carnegie Mellon University is featuring the work of women across the STEM fields including DDMLab Director Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social)! Read how these woman promote mentorship, outreach, and career success at CMU!

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#WomansHistoryMonth #CMU

DDMLab members Erin Bugbee and Chase McDonald presenting work at the 39th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence!

AAAI-25 Bridge Program - AAAI AAAI is pleased to present the AAAI-25 Bridge Program which includes 9 Bridges covering a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence.

Next week lab members Erin Bugbee and Chase McDonald will be presenting work at the 39th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Erin will be presenting a poster and Chase will be giving a short presentation. Congratulations both!
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Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods have yielded unprecedented results, even surpassing human performance on a variety of well-defined tasks. However, most real-world problems, especially...

Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) will be giving a keynote at AAAI Bridge Program's Collaborative AI and Modeling of Human meeting in Philadelphia, February 25th. CAIHu aims to bring together human-AI modeling researchers to exchange theories, ideas, and methods.

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Coty Gonzalez (@cotyg.bsky.social) was in action today at an executive education workshop hosted by CMU's CyLab.

Learn more about CyLab's workshops here:
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A new paper, led by Yinuo Du has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Social Computing! They design adversarial agents that learn. Look for it soon!

Du, Prebot, Malloy, Fang, & Gonzalez. A Cyber-War Between Bots: Human-Like Attackers are More Challenging for Defenders than Deterministic Attackers.

In this Management Science paper, we collaborate with friends from INSEAD Singapore to explore organizational learning at the individual and group level using a combination of experimental data and computational modeling.
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@cotyg.bsky.social #ManagementScience