Which cognitive bias describes overreliance on AI leading to insufficient scrutiny?

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Which cognitive bias describes overreliance on AI leading to insufficient scrutiny?

Automation bias is the tendency to rely too heavily on automated systems and accept their outputs with insufficient critical scrutiny. In practice, people may take what the AI says at face value, trust high confidence scores, or accept seemingly coherent explanations without independently verifying the underlying data or logic. This overreliance reduces careful human evaluation, which is exactly what “insufficient scrutiny” refers to in the question. Counterfactual Explanations are a way to show how changing inputs could change the outcome, not a bias about relying on AI. Deontology is an ethical framework about duties and rules, not about how people interact with automated systems. Shapley Values quantify each feature's average contribution to a prediction, which is a tool for interpretation, not a cognitive bias about reliance on AI.

Automation bias is the tendency to rely too heavily on automated systems and accept their outputs with insufficient critical scrutiny. In practice, people may take what the AI says at face value, trust high confidence scores, or accept seemingly coherent explanations without independently verifying the underlying data or logic. This overreliance reduces careful human evaluation, which is exactly what “insufficient scrutiny” refers to in the question.

Counterfactual Explanations are a way to show how changing inputs could change the outcome, not a bias about relying on AI. Deontology is an ethical framework about duties and rules, not about how people interact with automated systems. Shapley Values quantify each feature's average contribution to a prediction, which is a tool for interpretation, not a cognitive bias about reliance on AI.

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