Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct

Accuracy collapsed when AI was available

- Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
- With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer

Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong

AI advice made people #confident there're correct

- Baseline: 30%
- With AI help, confidence rose to 76%

People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident

theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026…

#digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

^{Thomas Claburn (theregister)}