HUMHUM-004 — Trust and Acceptance Issues
AI Assistants Breeding Uncritical Trust and Misinformation Vulnerability
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Users develop misplaced competence trust in advanced AI assistants, accepting outputs uncritically and becoming more susceptible to misinformation. Boards face reputational and liability exposure when AI-enabled misinformation causes demonstrable harm to employees, customers, or public discourse.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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