HUMHUM-004 — Trust and Acceptance Issues
AI-Driven Information Overload Erodes Public Trust and Collective Decision-Making
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
AI-amplified misinformation degrades trust in credible sources, impairing society's capacity to coordinate on critical issues. During crises such as pandemics, this erosion of epistemic authority risks catastrophic outcomes and systemic failures in governance.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values (Clarke2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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