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title: "Automation bias"
description: "The tendency of a person to over-rely on an automated system's output."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/automation-bias
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-25
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# Automation bias

The tendency of a person to over-rely on an automated system's output. EU AI Act Article 14 asks that people overseeing high-risk systems stay aware of it [1]; the human gate logs approver, time to decide and override rate so that degrading oversight is visible.

- Developed in: [ch. 11, Certainty required by risk tier](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/ai-defined#certainty-required-by-risk-tier); [ch. 04, Designing human oversight (Article 14)](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-stack#designing-human-oversight-article-14); [ch. 23, What a good approval looks like](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-agents#what-a-good-approval-looks-like)
- Chapters: [ch. 04, The Stack](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-stack) · [ch. 11, AI Defined](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/ai-defined) · [ch. 23, AI Agents](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-agents)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-automation-bias

## Sources

[1] Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), consolidated text as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI, in force 27 Jul 2026; definitions in Art. 3, incl. 3(1), 3(3) to 3(14), 3(14b), 3(20), 3(22), 3(23), 3(29) to 3(32), 3(49), 3(55) to 3(57), 3(60), 3(61), 3(63), 3(68); Arts. 4, 5, 6 (incl. 6(3) third subparagraph, profiling), 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22 to 27 (incl. 26(11)), 40, 41, 43, 47, 48, 50, 53 (incl. 53(1)(c)), 55, 57, 60, 72, 73, 86; Annexes I, III, IV). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2026-07-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng (verified: primary)