Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

“It’s not about whether Ryan was actually right or wrong,” said co-author Cinoo Lee, a Stanford social psychologist. “That’s not really ours to say. It’s more about the pattern that’s consistent across the data. Compared to an AI that didn’t overly affirm, people who interacted with this over-affirming AI came away more convinced that they…

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