Trust Calibration

TL;DR for operators A training intake form usually asks whether someone has completed an AI course or workshop. It is tidy, auditable, and apparently not very informative. In a study of 93 bioscience graduate and postdoctoral trainees, reported LLM usage frequency differentiated all five baseline AI-perception outcomes after correction for multiple comparisons. Self-rated familiarity differentiated three. Prior AI education differentiated none.1 ...

Persona Non Grata: When LLMs Forget They’re AI A chatbot wearing a lab coat is still a chatbot. That sentence sounds obvious until a system prompt quietly says, “You are a renowned neurosurgeon with 25 years of experience,” and the model responds by inventing medical school, residency, fellowships, board certification, patient cases, and lifelong professional development. Not because anyone explicitly asked it to lie. Not because it lacks the ability to say “I am an AI.” Under neutral conditions, the models in this study almost always do say that. ...