Just four months ago I lived a life of wandering the mountains and cutting firewood to heat my Hobbit Hole with my companion Wapaju Keesaq, a Grey Wolf Siberian Husky mix. Our lives were basically uneventful except for the occasional visit of a mountain lion or bear. Then my life changed when my friend told me he had stage 4 cancer. I scrambled to find ways to raise money and decided on t-shirt sales relating to political movements (due to all views behind USA changes). Well my plan was to sell them, but only after they watched videos of the opposing sides views( I couldn't stand how extremely bias everyone was.). This business for obvious reasons (my feelings) was doomed. It was during those days that I learned of automation bias, and that was when I jumped out of the frying pan into the fire of automation bias in the AI/ human interaction. While some will call my inexperience a weakness, I do not, I see it as a strength. It allowed me see a problem without any preconceived beliefs and restraints. You can see this directly in my design, because very early on I felt it was not the AI that was the problem. The problem was a human one, so I grounded my work in Psychology and Mathematics. So now, it would seem, that while my friends life is very important, the lives of all that can fall victim to automation bias are the ones I aim to care about.
