Mere availability of AI advice collapses human "I don't know" from 43% to 3%
ValerioCapraro · x · 2026-10-16
Valerio Capraro's paper is going viral on Instagram for its dramatic finding: merely making AI advice available collapses human willingness to say "I don't know" from 43% to 3%. The experiment deliberately made the AI advice factually wrong, so abandoning epistemic humility was irrational — and accuracy suffered, with correct answers dropping from 27%… (full figures in the paper). Paper and a podcast interview are linked.
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