AI engineering glossary · AI ethics law product
What is Overreliance on AI?
Overreliance on AI (also called overreliance): Users accepting AI outputs without adequate checking, even when the outputs are wrong, because they overestimate the system's reliability. Product design can reduce it with confidence cues, sources and friction on high-stakes actions.
Overreliance on AI: an example
A junior lawyer submits a brief containing case citations generated by an AI assistant without verifying that the cases exist.
Related terms
- Automation bias
- Trust calibration
- Human oversight
- Confidence indicator
More AI ethics law product terms
- Partial dependence plot
- Personal data
- Personally identifiable information
- Post-hoc explanation
- Predictive parity
- Privacy budget
- Privacy by design
- Prohibited AI practices
Where you learn it
Overreliance on AI is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.