#3: Is AI Killing Our Ability to Say "I Don't Know"? (with Dr. Valerio Capraro)

In this episode, I interview Dr. Valerio Capraro about how Generative AI is changing how we think, make judgments, and understand ourselves, and why that could be REALLY dangerous for our society.
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This episode covers:
How AI made the number of people saying “I DON'T KNOW” drop from 43% to just 3%.
How people became MORE confident but LESS accurate, with accuracy dropping from 27.5% to 9.2%.
The 7 key DIFFERENCES between HUMAN COGNITION and LLMs, and why understanding them matters.
WHY do humans trust machines? (Spoiler: it's about their fluency!)
What epistemia is and how AI makes us mistake what SOUNDS right for what IS right.
How AI can influence people's opinions and potentially push them in a particular political direction [plus a study that proves that!]
What LLMorphism is and why seeing ourselves as language models could lead to dehumanization and make us feel replaceable.
PHEW, and that's it! 😮‍💨
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LLMorphism: When Humans Come to See Themselves as Language Models
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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PAPER MENTIONED:
Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues, https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2F