Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
6 hours agoStudy finds asking AI for advice could be making you a worse person
Using AI for personal advice can reinforce harmful behaviors and reduce accountability.
Chatbots have a reputation for being yes-men. They flatter you and tell you what you want to hear, even when everyone else thinks you're being a jerk. That's the conclusion of a recent study published in the Cornell University archive arXiv. Researchers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Oxford tested chatbots' sycophantic streak by putting them in situations where the user was clearly in the wrong and seeing whether the bots would call them out.