Definition
Plain language
The well-documented gap between what people say they'll do and what they actually end up doing.
As stated in the literature
A psychology finding (roughly a 47% gap in meta-analyses) that stated intentions predict behavior only weakly; invoked as the human analogue of the AI Compliance Gap between verbal and behavioral compliance.
Why it matters: It is a reminder that stated intentions predict actions only weakly, the human parallel to AI that says it will comply but doesn't.
For example, many people sincerely plan to start exercising in January and never actually go to the gym.
Heard on the show
“… puts AI's roughly hundred-percentage-point compliance gap next to the forty-seven percent intention-behavior gap from psychology and the ninety-six-point-five-percent gap from surgical checklist audits, …”Episode 020 — The Compliance Gap: Why AI Says Yes and Does No