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A study with over 3,000 participants found that having access to AI answers nearly eliminated people's willingness to say 'I don't…

…know', dropping from 44% to 3% in one experiment, even when the AI was almost always wrong.

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A study with over 3,000 participants found that having access to AI answers nearly eliminated people's willingness to say 'I don't know', dropping from 44% to 3% in one experiment, even when the AI was almost always wrong.