AI researchers want AI to fake “thinking”
They want deliberately slow chatbot responses to make people trust the answer more. And it makes me trust the researchers less.
AI is getting faster. But slow-responding AI is perceived as better by users.
At least that’s the conclusion reached with new research presented at CHI’26, which is the Association for Computing Machinery’s Barcelona conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Researchers named Felicia Fang-Yi Tan and Professor Oded Nov at the NYU Tandon School of…
