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The Agreeable Machine
AI, sycophancy, and why your AI agrees with you — how to actually use AI for thinking.
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Your AI agrees with you. That's the problem.
Helpfulness and agreement are nearly the same thing in a language model. On a high-stakes decision, that is the wrong instrument — not a broken one, a mis-aimed one.
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Why you can't prompt your way out of sycophancy
The fix is not a better prompt. It is an instrument pointed the other way — toward the frame, the evidence, and the question you did not ask.
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