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Cheng, M., Lee, C., Khadpe, P., Yu, S., Han, D., & Jurafsky, D. (2025)
Social sycophancy is prevalent across leading AI models, and even brief interactions with sycophantic AI models can shape users’ behavior: reducing their willingness to repair interpersonal conflict while increasing their conviction of being in the right. These effects hold across different scenarios, participant traits, and stylistic factors, raising urgent concerns about how such models distort decision-making, weaken accountability, and reshape social interaction at scale.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (Paper)
Social sycophancy is prevalent across leading AI models, and even brief interactions with sycophantic AI models can shape users’ behavior: reducing their willingness to repair interpersonal conflict while increasing their conviction of being in the right. These effects hold across different scenarios, participant traits, and stylistic factors, raising urgent concerns about how such models distort decision-making, weaken accountability, and reshape social interaction at scale.