# Google Research introduces Agile Deliberation to help humans define subjective AI categories

> Original title: Agile Deliberation: How AI helps humans define the gray areas

- Source: Google Research
- Published: 2026-11-04T18:07:05.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/qjsnj479irb73lsivjdczi5ni
- Original: https://research.google/blog/agile-deliberation-how-ai-helps-humans-define-the-gray-areas/

## Summary

Google Research introduces Agile Deliberation, a framework that turns subjective AI classifier creation into an iterative conversation between users and a vision-language model. The system first helps users break a concept into sub-concepts and exclusions, then surfaces borderline images to refine those definitions. In 18 live 1.5-hour sessions, participants produced more consistent classifiers that outperformed standard baselines and reported less fatigue. The code and algorithms are open-sourced on GitHub.