BOHSI Webinar: Performance Optimization in Human-AI Teams
Posted August 12, 2025
Sep 9, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
This session builds on the first webinar in the Board on Human-Systems Integration's (BOHSI’s) Human-AI Teaming Webinar Series, Future Trajectories of Human-AI Collaboration and Teaming. This session will explore bidirectional performance optimization—how both humans and AI contribute to and enhance team outcomes. As AI systems become more adaptive and proactive across domains such as transportation, healthcare, and defense, the traditional view of autonomy as a binary is giving way to more dynamic configurations.
Rather than a simple trade-off between human control and AI independence, users must now adjust multiple interdependent factors, including degrees of AI autonomy, proactivity, and initiative. This webinar will examine how these configurations impact workload distribution, trust calibration, decision-support mechanisms, and intra- and inter-team interactions.
Key questions include:
- What does performance look like in human-AI teaming, and how it is measured?
- How do organizations define and fine-tune these parameters to align AI performance with human expectations and operational goals?
- As autonomy becomes more fluid, what does meaningful human oversight look like?
- How do we balance human supervisory roles with increasingly autonomous AI systems?
Speakers include:
- Beau Schelble, Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee Knoxville
- Thomas O'Neill, Professor, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
- Julie Shah, Department Head, AeroAstro: H.N. Slater Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Techology (MIT)
Moderator: Julie Marble, Director of the Intelligent Human Machine Systems Division at the Applied Research Lab for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS), at the University of Maryland and BOHSI member
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