Teaching machines to avoid our mistakes

The conventional wisdom is that intelligent systems, while good with numbers and maybe facts, are not going to be able to cope with the world of judgment and decision-making. The common assumption is that computers will not be able to deal with the nuance of reasoning that drives the solely human ability to assess what is happening in the world and then make reasoned decisions in reaction to that assessment. And herein lies my problem -- the assumption hidden in this belief is that humans are actually good at this sort of reasoning. And it's not clear that this is true. In particular, we seem prone to reasoning mistakes based on biases in decision-making that hinder us every day.