AI Likes Kissing Up to You
candidate at Stanford University and lead author of a March study on agreeable AI. If you take AI to be an authority in your life, the pressure to take responsibility and self-correct is muted.
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candidate at Stanford University and lead author of a March study on agreeable AI.
If you take AI to be an authority in your life, the pressure to take responsibility and self-correct is muted.
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candidate at Stanford University and lead author of a March study on agreeable AI. If you take AI to be an authority in your life, the pressure to take responsibility and self-correct is muted. <a href="https://twitter.com/LeadershipNow" title="LeadershipNow on Twitter" target=...
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Personal Tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, Nicole Nguyen, wrote in Why I Told My Chatbot to Stop Kissing Up to Me, "AI is trained in part on what people like, and people prefer the brown-nosing, says Myra Cheng, a computer-science Ph.D. In three preregistered experiments, even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants' willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their conviction that they were right." This is foreboding.
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