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AI oversight, bias & failure · Specialist

Automation bias

ELI5

The tendency to trust or defer to automated output more than the evidence warrants.

Used in conversation

“The review flagged the automation bias in the way the people or material were represented.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Automation bias” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Connected terms

  • Algorithmic biasAlgorithmic bias is systematic skew in a system or its outcomes; automation bias is a human tendency to over-trust automated output.
Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.