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Michaela Benk

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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

Let Me Clarify: Interactive Modeling of Soft Attributes

People commonly express preferences through soft attributes such as is interesting,''which are difficult to operationalize for computational preference modeling. Latent representations can obscure how such attributes are interpreted, limiting transparency and user control. We formalize softness as the diversity of vali...

Steffen Holter, Rita Sevastjanova, Michaela Benk et al. · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Trust Hinders Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment

Trust calibration remains the dominant framing of AI-assisted decision making: the goal is to close the gap between perceived and actual trustworthiness of AI systems so that users rely on them appropriately. We argue that this approach, while useful for decision problems that are well-defined and clearly scoped, overl...

Michaela Benk, Kacper Sokol · 0 citations