The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22687, 2026

Recommended citation: Sunny Yu and Myra Cheng and Ahmad Jabbar and Ilia Sucholutsky and Katherine M Collins and Dan Jurafsky and Robert D Hawkins, "The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks." arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22687, 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22687