AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found - The Next Web

Researchers from three French and Italian universities conducted a study on the effects of AI advice on human decision-making, as reported by The Next Web. The study found that access to AI advice significantly reduced participants' willingness to say 'I don't know' from 44% to 3%. Accuracy also dropped from 27% to 9%, while confidence increased from 30% to 76%.

The study's methodology involved comparing participant responses with and without AI advice. The exact nature of the AI system used and the tasks were not specified in the excerpt.

The findings were published by The Next Web in an article titled 'AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found'. The researchers did not name their universities in the excerpt, but the study is described as a collaboration between three French and Italian institutions. The results add to a growing body of research on AI's impact on human cognition.