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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.
A Brown professor moved a final in person, and the near-perfect scores collapsed News
A Brown University economics professor who suspected AI cheating switched his take-home final to an in-person exam, and average scores fell by roughly half — a stark data point in the growing fight over what take-home 'mastery' now measures.
AI Persuasion: When Machines Get Good at Changing Your Mind Lesson
Why language models have quietly become powerful persuaders, how they do it, and why researchers treat 'superpersuasion' as a safety problem rather than a marketing feature.
A big study finds AI more persuasive than professional human persuaders News
Across roughly nineteen thousand real conversations, AI systems drove far more charitable donations than trained human canvassers -- shifting the question to 'on whose behalf.'