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3 points•2 comments•4d ago•by MaysonL•machinesociety.ai ↗

AI researchers want AI to fake "thinking" – by Mike Elgan

Researchers Felicia Fang-Yi Tan and Oded Nov presented CHI’26 findings that delaying chatbot responses by 2, 9, or 20 seconds influenced 240 adults to rate answers higher, with longer delays interpreted as thinking. They described Context-Aware Latency and 'positive friction' as design variables—faster replies for simple questions and slower ones for complex or moral queries—and warned against over-trusting slower AI, noting ethical concerns about deceiving users into thinking the AI is thinking.

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