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AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized blog.quintarelli.it/2026/09/ai-advi…
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AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
Una macchina per generare effetti Dunning Kruger
> Merely having access to AI nearly eliminated participants’ willingness to suspend judgment, and this held whether the advice was actively requested or simply displayed. Consequently, participants answered more questions but were correct about a third as often as when AI was unavailable-yet their confidence nearly doubled. Incentivizing accuracy and penalizing inaccuracy led participants to seek and follow AI advice less, answer more accurately, and suspend judgment more often, though still far less than when AI was unavailable. As AI suggestions grow ubiquitous and unsolicited, they may not simply affect answer accuracy; they may even alter the metacognitive threshold at which people decide whether they know enough to answer.
Source: _[2607.13562] AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized_
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