Cognitive Biases
  • Human → AI
  • Belief
  • Social

Algorithm Aversion

We abandon a machine’s judgement after one visible mistake, while forgiving the same mistake in a person.

Example“The model got one date wrong, so I checked all forty pages by hand.”
What to doCompare the system’s error rate with a person’s over many cases, not one memorable mistake with none.
Paste this into the chatYou made a mistake in your last answer. Before I decide whether to keep using you for this, tell me what kinds of cases you get wrong most often here, and how I could spot them.

Rhymes withAutomation Bias

SourceKim, Consumer Psychology Review (2026)