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suspension-of-judgment · marcoccia-quattrociocchi-capraro-2026-ai-advice-i-dont-know
- Claim ID
- suspension-of-judgment
- Assertion
- In five experiments (N = 3,132) with deliberately wrong AI advice, access to AI nearly eliminated participants' willingness to answer "I don't know"; they answered more questions but were correct about a third as often, while their confidence nearly doubled. Accuracy incentives reduced but did not remove the effect.
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In five experiments (N = 3,132; four preregistered, one direct replication), participants answered difficult questions and could always decline to respond. We engineered the questions so that AI advice was wrong, separating AI use from its accuracy. Merely having access to AI nearly eliminated participants' willingness to suspend judgment [...] participants answered more questions but were correct about a third as often as when AI was unavailable-yet their confidence nearly doubled.
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- en
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- section: Abstract
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