arXiv:2603.18677cs.HCcs.AI2026-03被引 1

提出四维指标框架,区分人机协作中增强与依赖的差异。

Cognitive Amplification vs Cognitive Delegation in Human-AI Systems: A Metric Framework

  • 定义四个量化指标,评估人机协作中的能力增益与依赖程度。
  • 仿真显示所有配置均未实现真正的能力增强,即使零退化也难达正向协同。
  • 适合关注人机长期可持续协作的研究者与系统设计者。

人工智能日益嵌入人类决策过程。在某些情况下,它能提升人机混合性能并保留人类专长;在另一些情况下,则导致认知过度依赖。本文提出一个概念与数学框架,以区分认知增强(人机协作性能超越单一主体)与认知外包(推理逐步移交AI,长期削弱人类能力)。定义四项操作性指标:认知增强指数(CAI*),衡量协作收益是否超过最优独立主体;依赖比(D)与人类依赖指数(HRI),量化AI在混合输出中的结构性主导;人类认知退化率(HCDR),捕捉人类自主能力随时间的衰减或维持。通过NetLogo的代理模拟,在三种依赖模式与多重依赖-退化配置下验证框架。结果区分出纯粹由AI主导的退化模式、人类保留但竞争力弱的交互模式,以及接近AI基线但结构上仍依赖的中间状态。所有测试配置均未实现真正的增强。对退化参数的约束优化表明,降低退化虽可提升人类保留能力、协作增益与依赖结构,但即使退化为零,协作增益仍不为正。该框架为评估人机系统是否在保持性能的同时维护人类长期能力提供了实用工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in human decision making. In some cases, it enhances human reasoning. In others, it fosters excessive cognitive dependence. This paper introduces a conceptual and mathematical framework to distinguish cognitive amplification, where AI improves hybrid human AI performance while preserving human expertise, from cognitive delegation, where reasoning is progressively outsourced to the AI system, risking long term atrophy of human capabilities. We define four operational metrics: the Cognitive Amplification Index, or CAI star, which measures collaborative gain beyond the best standalone agent; the Dependency Ratio, or D, and Human Reliance Index, or HRI, which quantify the structural dominance of the AI within the hybrid output; and the Human Cognitive Drift Rate, or HCDR, which captures the temporal erosion or maintenance of autonomous human performance. Together, these quantities characterize human AI systems in terms of both immediate hybrid performance and long term cognitive sustainability. We validate the framework through an agent based simulation in NetLogo across three reliance regimes and multiple dependency and atrophy configurations. The results distinguish degenerate AI dominated delegation, human preserving but weakly competitive interaction, and intermediate boundary regimes that approach the AI baseline while remaining structurally dependent. Across all tested configurations, no regime achieves genuine amplification. A constrained optimization over the atrophy parameter shows that reducing atrophy improves retained human capability, collaborative gain, and dependency structure, but even zero atrophy does not yield positive collaborative gain. The framework therefore provides a practical tool for evaluating whether human AI systems perform well in a way that also preserves human capability over time.

人机协作认知增强指标框架可持续性

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