AI advice leads to a significant decrease in accuracy and an increase in confidence among users.

AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30% to 76%. “People became much worse, the accuracy was only one third, but they were twice as ...

#AI advice made people 3X less accurate but 2X as confident, researchers found Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3% when AI was available. Monetary incentives barely helped. #artificialintelligence #gigo https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

"with AI advice available, participants' willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from about 44% to 3%; confidence jumped 30% → 76% while accuracy fell 27% → 9%" https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5y6m4_v1 "AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized"