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PublishedJuly 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
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arXiv:2607.13562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowing when to say "I don't know" is fundamental to human judgment, yet AI assistants offer a fluent answer to almost any question. In five experiments (N = 3,132; four preregistered, one direct replication), participants answered difficult questions
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