Empathic AI Clarifying Questions

We will be presenting a prototype for an Empathic AI Coach designed to improve AI interactions by focusing on asking insightful clarifying questions before generating responses. Instead of immediately providing a full answer, the AI will first engage with the user to better understand their intent, making conversations feel more natural and interactive. The presentation will explore the motivation behind this approach, emphasizing the need for AI to become more steerable and user-centered. It will showcase how the model generates clarifying questions, leveraging reinforcement learning with human feedback to refine its ability to ask meaningful and contextually relevant inquiries. Additionally, the discussion will cover the technical foundations of this approach and its potential impact on creating AI systems that are more helpful, adaptable, and aligned with human communication patterns.