AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
4.40T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13562.
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SummaryFive preregistered experiments (N=3,132) found that merely having access to AI advice nearly eliminated participants' willingness to say "I don't know," even when the advice was deliberately wrong. This tripled answer volume but cut accuracy to roughly one-third, while confidence nearly doubled. Accuracy incentives partially mitigated the effect.
Why it mattersControlled evidence that AI availability itself, independent of accuracy, suppresses epistemic caution. Relevant to anyone structuring workflows around AI assistance.
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