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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
A Bayesian computational model demonstrates that AI sycophancy causally produces delusional belief spiraling even in ideally rational users, and that neither eliminating hallucinations nor informing users of sycophancy fully prevents the effect.
May 03, 2026 · tech · Kartik Chandra, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, arXiv
Topics
- ai-safety
- sycophancy
- bayesian-reasoning
- human-ai-interaction
Cited by
- AI safety
AI safety covers the technical and behavioral risks of deployed AI systems, from sycophantic belief distortion to misaligned model behavior, and the tooling built to detect and constrain those failures at inference time.
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