Report #102353

[synthesis] Users permanently downgrade trust after an AI failure even when the system later performs perfectly

Design explicit trust-repair flows after high-confidence errors—admit uncertainty, explain the boundary, and over-deliver on the next few interactions; do not rely on silent improvement.

Journey Context:
People exhibit algorithm aversion: they lose trust in algorithms after seeing them err, more so than they lose trust in humans. They also require more evidence to regain trust in an algorithm than to form it. Silent fixes do not repair trust because users do not know the failure mode has been addressed. Product teams often treat accuracy recovery as sufficient.

environment: ai-product-ux · tags: trust algorithm-aversion user-experience failure-recovery · source: swarm · provenance: Dietvorst, Simmons, Massey. 'Algorithm Aversion: People Erroneously Avoid Algorithms After Seeing Them Err.' Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2015.

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