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Topics:  Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Management Information Systems, Decision Making

Industries: Computer/Network Security, Defense

Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez is a Professor at the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the founding director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory and the research co-director of the National AI Institute for Societal Decision Making. She is affiliated with the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, The Human-Computer Interaction Institute, The Software and Societal Systems Department, and The CNBC Center for Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University.

Coty is a 2024 AAAS Fellow and the 15th faculty member from Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences to be elected a fellow of AAAS. She is a lifetime fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a Senior Editor for Topics in Cognitive Science, a Consulting Editor for Decision, and Associate Editor for the System Dynamics Review and a member of editorial boards in multiple other journals including: Cognitive Science, Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and others.

Media Experience

The Next Generation of AI Won’t Replace Humans – It Will Work With Them  — CMU Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Cleotilde “Coty” Gonzalez has a different vision for the future – one in which humans and AI work together as teammates. In fact, she and a cohort of collaborators have recently published three scientific papers (see sidebar) investigating the facets of “cognitive AI” and how it could partner with humans on teams.

Inside the High-Stakes Decisions of the NFL Draft  — CMU Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
By nature, the draft is about planning for the future. Teams won’t know the results of their picks for months or years to come. That kind of planning is not something people are generally good at, said Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez, a professor in CMU’s Department of Social and Decision Sciences.

Collective intelligence framework shows how human-AI teams may make better decisions  — Tech Xplore
"AI is becoming deeply embedded in collective decision making, marking a profound transformation in how decisions are made across domains, from health care and emergency response to finance, transportation, and governance," explains Cleotilde Gonzalez, Professor of Cognitive Decision Science at CMU, and lead author on the paper.

Dating choices or draft picks — the cognitive science behind either is similar, CMU professors say  — TribLIVE
“You date someone and you make a choice to commit to this person, or keep looking,” said Cleotilde Gonzalez, a cognitive decision science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “That is precisely the exploration–exploitation dilemma. The problem is we don’t know when to stop.”