{"id":210322,"date":"2025-04-01T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ai-thinks-like-us-flaws-and-all-study-finds-chatgpt-mirrors-human-decision-biases-in-half-the-tests"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:04:26","slug":"ai-thinks-like-us-flaws-and-all-study-finds-chatgpt-mirrors-human-decision-biases-in-half-the-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ai-thinks-like-us-flaws-and-all-study-finds-chatgpt-mirrors-human-decision-biases-in-half-the-tests","title":{"rendered":"AI thinks like us\u2014flaws and all: Study finds ChatGPT mirrors human decision biases in half the tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-thinks-like-us-flaws-and-all-study-finds-chatgpt-mirrors-human-decision-biases-in-half-the-tests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says \u2026 not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations\u2014showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gambler\u2019s) fallacy\u2014yet acting inhuman in others (e.g., not suffering from base-rate neglect or sunk cost fallacies).<\/p>\n<p>Published in the <i>Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management<\/i> journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/msom.2023.0279\" target=\"_blank\">the study<\/a> reveals that ChatGPT doesn\u2019t just crunch numbers\u2014it \u201cthinks\u201d in ways eerily similar to humans, including mental shortcuts and blind spots. These <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/biases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biases<\/a> remain rather stable across different business situations but may change as AI evolves from one version to the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says \u2026 not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations\u2014showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gambler\u2019s) fallacy\u2014yet acting inhuman in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}