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The Trust Calibration Problem — Why Users Either Over-Trust or Under-Trust AI and What That Means for Product Design

July 17, 2026·9 min read
AI
engineering leadership
engineering
product strategy

The biggest unsolved problem in AI product design isn't hallucination. It's miscalibrated trust. I want to tell you about two users of the same AI platform. Same product. Same features. Same underlying model. Completely different relationships with what the AI tells them. The first user — a senior finance professional

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