Overinterpretation Risk

Description

The evaluator may be over-attributing behavior to AI when other factors are more central.

Rationale

There is a risk that evaluators will attribute behaviors, beliefs, or risks to AI interaction when other factors — psychiatric illness, substance use, relationship conflict, financial crisis — are primary. This element requires the evaluator to explicitly consider alternative or additional explanations before concluding that AI is the central causal factor.

Evidence Base

• Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models

  Kaiqu Liang, Haimin Hu, Xuandong Zhao, Dawn Song, Thomas L. Griffiths, Jaime Fernández Fisac, 2024. Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models. Preprint, arXiv:2507.07484v1.

  Preprint