"AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences." ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots feed into humans’ desire for flattery and approval at an alarming rate and it’s leading the bots to give bad — even harmful — advice and making users self-absorbed, a ...

Participants in the new study, which was published today in Science, preferred the sycophantic AI models to other models that ...

Artificial intelligence tools—notably the chatbots that students use—may make the problem worse. AI chatbots’ tendency to ...

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how ...

An engineering team spends six weeks building a chatbot with an AI app builder. The demo impresses the C-suite. The bot answers product questions, suggests items, and handles returns in a sandbox.

AI chatbots often agree with users—even when they’re wrong—boosting confidence while reducing accountability, a new study warns.

A VPN company has put together AI chatbot privacy ratings based on the data collection practices of the ten most popular AI ...