Generative AI at Work / Unit 6 GAI 131 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Algorithm Aversion
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The idea
The opposite failure, which NIST also names, is algorithm aversion: experts avoiding AI tools unnecessarily and losing their real benefits.
In practice
An analyst who rejects every AI suggestion on principle, including the correct ones, and spends a week on a task the tool could have drafted in minutes.
Where people slip
Good oversight is calibrated: neither rubber stamp nor reflexive veto.
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