Is it any less tenable to claim "most people don't [do anything] carefully or for comprehension"? (in a world with ai augmentation, is it better to be an eloi

Is it any less tenable to claim "most people don't [do anything] carefully or for comprehension"? (in a world with ai augmentation, is it better to be an eloi or a morlock? should care and comprehension be taken care of by better tooling? or will there be advantage to being among the few who can spot when the tools hallucinate?)