AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Research Finds
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New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images People who are the worst at doing something also tend to severely overestimate how good they are at doing it, while those who are actually skilled tend to not realize their true talent. This galling cognitive bias is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, as you’re probably familiar — and would you believe it if we told you that AI appears to make it even worse? Case in point, a new study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior — and titled, memorably, “AI Makes You smarter But None the Wiser”) — showed that…
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