{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/do-not-infer-ai-confidence-from-fluent-delivery",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0499",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Do not infer AI confidence from fluent delivery",
  "summary": "Style can impersonate metacognition.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Treat linguistic fluency and lack of hesitation as presentation characteristics, not as evidence that the system knows it is correct. Humans can systematically attribute excessive confidence to AI even when observable behavior is matched. Look for validated uncertainty signals and evidence instead.",
  "limits": [
    "Clear communication is useful; this rule separates readability from epistemic confidence, not from quality."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-ai-reliance-metacognition"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-F3E82415FCCE8AED"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Seven preregistered experiments found observers systematically attributed greater confidence to AI agents than humans even when observed behavior was identical.",
      "source_id": "RS-F3E82415FCCE8AED",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Confidence attribution is not the same as actual model confidence.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A model's answer feels certain because it is fast, polished or direct."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Clear communication is useful; this rule separates readability from epistemic confidence, not from quality."
  ],
  "example": "A crisp one-line diagnosis from AI is not automatically more certain than a human explanation that includes caveats.",
  "check": "Reliance does not rise merely because the model's language is smooth or decisive.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-F3E82415FCCE8AED",
      "title": "Beliefs about accuracy shape confidence attributions to humans and artificial agents",
      "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00445-4"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0499",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0373",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/increase-scrutiny-when-ai-feels-effortlessly-right"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-39B535F35706B375",
      "title": "Calibrate when to rely on AI instead of measuring trust as a feeling",
      "url": "/collections/calibrate-when-to-rely-on-ai-instead-of-measuring-trust-as-a-feeling"
    }
  ]
}