LLMs in Cybersecurity: Friend or Foe in the Human Decision Loop?
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| author | Pekaric, Irdin Zech, Philipp Mattson, Tom |
| author_facet | Pekaric, Irdin Zech, Philipp Mattson, Tom |
| contents | Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming human decision-making by acting as cognitive collaborators. Yet, this promise comes with a paradox: while LLMs can improve accuracy, they may also erode independent reasoning, promote over-reliance and homogenize decisions. In this paper, we investigate how LLMs shape human judgment in security-critical contexts. Through two exploratory focus groups (unaided and LLM-supported), we assess decision accuracy, behavioral resilience and reliance dynamics. Our findings reveal that while LLMs enhance accuracy and consistency in routine decisions, they can inadvertently reduce cognitive diversity and improve automation bias, which is especially the case among users with lower resilience. In contrast, high-resilience individuals leverage LLMs more effectively, suggesting that cognitive traits mediate AI benefit. |
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| spellingShingle | LLMs in Cybersecurity: Friend or Foe in the Human Decision Loop? Pekaric, Irdin Zech, Philipp Mattson, Tom Cryptography and Security Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming human decision-making by acting as cognitive collaborators. Yet, this promise comes with a paradox: while LLMs can improve accuracy, they may also erode independent reasoning, promote over-reliance and homogenize decisions. In this paper, we investigate how LLMs shape human judgment in security-critical contexts. Through two exploratory focus groups (unaided and LLM-supported), we assess decision accuracy, behavioral resilience and reliance dynamics. Our findings reveal that while LLMs enhance accuracy and consistency in routine decisions, they can inadvertently reduce cognitive diversity and improve automation bias, which is especially the case among users with lower resilience. In contrast, high-resilience individuals leverage LLMs more effectively, suggesting that cognitive traits mediate AI benefit. |
| title | LLMs in Cybersecurity: Friend or Foe in the Human Decision Loop? |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06595 |