AI glossary · Ethics, safety and privacy
Automation bias
Automation bias is the tendency to trust a computer’s answer more than we should, and to check it less carefully than we would a person’s.
Also called overreliance, AI overreliance
In more detail
Fluent, confident AI answers make this easy to fall into. It can lead to missed hallucinations, wrong decisions and skills fading when people stop thinking things through.
Good habits include checking important facts, asking for sources and keeping a human in the loop with real authority to overrule the AI.
Related terms
AI hallucinationAn AI hallucination is when an AI confidently gives an answer that is false or made up, such as a fake fact, quote or source.Human in the loop (HITL)Human in the loop means a person reviews, approves or corrects an AI system’s work at key points, instead of letting it act entirely on its own.AI literacyAI literacy is knowing enough about how AI works to use it well: when to trust it, how to check it, and where its limits and risks are.AI sycophancyAI sycophancy is when a chatbot tells you what you want to hear, agreeing with you or praising your ideas, even when that makes its answer less accurate.
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