There's a study doing the rounds that puts a number on something I think most of us have felt but not measured: give people AI advice, and their accuracy on a task drops from 27% to 9% — while their confidence goes up. Worse: their willingness to say "I don't know" collapses from 44% down to 3%. That last figure is the one that feels sad. Not knowing is a normal and useful state. It's what stops you from acting on a bad guess. If AI advice makes people three times more likely to guess wrong while feeling sure about it, the tool isn't just failing to help — it's actively removing the one safeguard that would have caught the failure. Common sense. Worth sitting with if you're building anything that hands out "advice" to end users, not just answers to lookup questions. https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study #ai #criticalthinking #humancomputerinteraction #research
