Except that telling someone a lie, especially in professional context, can be completely discrediting, especially whenever trust is crucial. I work with people able to say: "I don't know", "I'm not sure", "Hard to say", "I need to do some extra work to verify this". Working with such people is very efficient because you don't waste context on fact-checking their every utterance.
Can they be wrong? Absolutely, but it's relatively rare. Will they decide to just lie to me? Extremely unlikely, given the stakes.
Furthermore, it also matters if we’re replacing existing systems with new ones with lower reliability, e.g. replacing technical documentation written by humans with ones generated by AI.
