Word.ws English Dictionary

automation bias

automation bias noun: the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems.

Noun

automation bias (usually uncountable, plural automation biases)

  1. (usually) The propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems.
    • The briefing paper also highlights the risk of “automation bias”, whereby police officers become overreliant on the use of analytical tools, undermining their discretion and causing them to disregard other relevant factors.2019 September 15, Jamie Grierson, “Predictive policing poses discrimination risk, thinktank warns”, in The Guardian

Forms of automation bias

pluralautomation biases

Questions about automation bias

What does automation bias mean?
Automation bias means the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems.
What part of speech is automation bias?
Automation bias is a noun.
What is the plural of automation bias?
The plural of automation bias is automation biases.

Words near automation bias in the dictionary

  1. automatick
  2. automaticness
  3. automatics
  4. automating
  5. automation
  6. automation bias
  7. automation complacency
  8. automations
  9. automatisation
  10. automatise
  11. automatised

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: automation bias (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “automation bias.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/automation_bias. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.