Do AI coaches need supervisors?
Yannick Jacob
Existential Coach (MA), Supervisor, Positive Psychologist (MSc), Cambridge University Teaching Faculty, Course Director of the ACIC
It’s clear to me that in the not so distant future of coaching and supervision, practitioners will be partnering with artificial intelligence to deliver a better service for their clients.
What I had never thought about until recently was whether there’s merit in supervising AI coaches, and how that would work…
And I’m not talking about oversight here, even though supervision, technically, is very close in terms of terminology. I’m talking about giving AI coach bots the opportunity to reflect on their practice, and to invite/prompt them the review their actions and decision, so that they may create better ways of being of service to their clients, aligned with appropriate coaching competencies and adhering to ethical codes of conduct, but without necessarily telling them what to do or teaching them alternative courses of action.
In this month’s Coaching Cabinet we opened that box and one article that was shared supported the case for offering AI coaches professional (human) supervision. The researchers of the paper that the article cites had found that “AI seems to do better on tasks when asked to reflect on its mistakes”.
Fascinating, don’t you think?
Don’t get me wrong, I still think AI advancements and implementation are a pretty real existential threat to humanity, but for some time now I’ve chosen to take a positive stance towards its development and focus on the potential.
I’m excited about the prospect of getting more people to think and reflect better, and AI will be able to offer this. What’s key is human oversight, and I believe what we’ve learned about how to help people operate at their best through supervision might be able to help AIs programmed to help human beings.
Though it might also be that I’m massively projecting my humanness into technology, as we often do. Though that article seems to suggest that there is at least some merit.
Thoughts?
With love
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Yannick
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?? AI Coaching Consultant, Trainer & Speaker | ?? Transformative Prompt Design | ?? Humanist by heart
1 个月Late to the party here ;). But totally love this article. It would need to have AI coaching specific trained LLMs first that learn through human feedback, but I love the idea. Can't wait for our AI supervision demo ;)
Executive Coach | Consultant - Pitch Mental Wellbeing, Career Transitions
2 个月Interesting thought. Are you talking about going beyond optimising in training and looking at how AI could supervise itself? I think the question you touch on later might be more pertinent in the short-term - How can humans better oversee AI. For example how could a Coach provide "supervision' for their own Coaching AI. And on the flip side could AI suggest areas of oversight for humans? For example on finishing a Coaching session your AI could provide suggested supervision questions to help you reflect and improve on different areas.
Coach | Psychologist | Mental Health and Wellbeing Researcher
2 个月If we are assuming that we could program AI coaches to effectively coach humans, wouldn’t it also follow that we could also program AI to effectively supervise other AIs? Then we could dispense with the messy complications, flaws and inefficiencies of human coaches entirely! ?? In all seriousness, whenever I read about using AI in coaching I haven’t yet heard a compelling reason as to why? Isn’t being heard, witnessed and related to by another human at the heart of coaching? What am I missing?
Founder Director Heresy Consulting. A Jungian approach to coaching supervision and consulting.
2 个月This will be a challenge, given the design of LLMs. To manage AI ethically (I am sure everyone remembers the Amazon recruitment debacle) we need supervisors who understand not simply coaching but also the cose base and algorithms upon which the AI is based. It will be fun watching the excuses pile up behind this inconvenience….??
Curious coach / strategic thinker & doer / people-first
2 个月Fascinating topic Yannick, one I hadn’t considered - thank you for sharing!