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AI users overestimate their results

2025-10-31 22:58:35.852801+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

AI use makes us overestimate our cognitive performance

The finding adds to a rapidly growing volume of research indicating that blindly trusting AI output comes with risks like ‘dumbing down’ people’s ability to source reliable information and even workforce de- skilling. While people did perform better when using ChatGPT, it’s concerning that they all overestimated that performance.

‘AI literacy is truly important nowadays, and therefore this is a very striking effect. AI literacy might be very technical, and it’s not really helping people actually interact fruitfully with AI systems’, says Welsch

Elsevier/Scie nceDirect paywalled: AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition

SSRN preprint: Ai Makes You Smarter, But None the Wiser: The Disconnect between Performance and Metacognition

Via Pivot to AI: AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot.

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