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• AI access drops people's willingness to admit ignorance from 44% to 3%: A study of over 3,000 participants found that having access to AI answers nearly eliminated people's willingness to say "I don't know," dropping it from 44% to 3% in one experiment. Despite the AI being almost always wrong, users felt more confident but were correct only a third as often.

  AI research • The Decoder

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