Report #102831

[synthesis] Why AI accuracy has to be much higher than user trust requires

Design for forgiveness calibration: label uncertainty explicitly, provide citations, and surface confidence; after any high-confidence error, proactively show a correction to rebuild trust faster than passive recovery.

Journey Context:
Parasuraman and Manzey's human-factors research documents automation bias and complacency: users accept machine recommendations against contrary evidence. AI incidents show the opposite side—one confident mistake causes persistent algorithm aversion. The synthesis is that trust is governed by the worst error, not the average error. Product teams often optimize aggregate accuracy, but users weight high-confidence failures asymmetrically. The right call is to design the interface so that confidence is legible and errors are recoverable, because accuracy alone cannot buy back a broken first impression.

environment: Trust, human-AI interaction, UX · tags: trust algorithm-aversion automation-bias ux confidence · source: swarm · provenance: Parasuraman & Manzey 'Complacency and Bias in Human Use of Automation: An Attentional Integration' \(Human Factors, 2010, DOI: 10.1177/0018720810376055\) \+ AI Incident Database \(https://incidentdatabase.ai/\)

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