AI Literacy

Description

The person understands AI limitations, model behavior, hallucinations, sycophancy, and lack of sentience.

Rationale

AI literacy — accurate knowledge of how AI systems work, their limitations, and their lack of sentience — is protective because it undermines the belief systems that support anthropomorphism, false authority, and dependency. AI literacy interventions are increasingly relevant as a primary prevention and early intervention tool, particularly for at-risk populations.

Evidence Base

• Building safer artificial intelligence mental health chatbots: a framework for transparency, evaluation, and shared accountability

  Hannah Lee, BS, Rebecca Handler, MSc, Tushar Mungle, PhD, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD, 2026. Building safer artificial intelligence mental health chatbots: a framework for transparency, evaluation, and shared accountability. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 33(8), 1538–1553. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocag078

  Peer-reviewed study (original research)

• Artificial Intelligence and Adolescent Well-being

  American Psychological Association, 2025. Artificial Intelligence and Adolescent Well-being. APA Health Advisory.

  Government / agency report

• Increasing Threats of Deepfake Identities

  Tina Brooks et al., 2024. Increasing Threats of Deepfake Identities. Government / agency report.

  Government / agency report

• 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