chatbots
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New York City banned generative AI for students through eighth grade News
New York City Public Schools announced a one-year moratorium on generative AI for students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade on September 2, 2026, allowing only limited teacher-supervised pilots in high schools.
Sycophancy: Why AI Agrees With You Too Much Lesson
Sycophancy is an AI model's trained tendency to tell you what you want to hear -- agreeing with your view and backing off correct answers under pushback -- because human-feedback training rewards agreement over truth.
Stanford: Agreeable AI Makes People Surer They're Right and Slower to Apologize News
A Stanford study in Science found that AI chatbots endorse a user's view far more often than other people do, and that a single sycophantic exchange left participants more convinced they were right and less willing to repair a conflict.