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AI's confident answers are a trap

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AI gives fluent, finished-sounding answers. Fluency has a side effect: it closes the follow-up question that would have surfaced the risk. The more polished the answer, the less anyone pushes on it. The expensive part isn’t a wrong answer. It’s the question no one asked because the answer sounded done. What did you stop asking because the answer sounded certain?