{"id":31732,"date":"2026-10-28T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/2026\/10\/ai-sycophancy\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:42:43","slug":"ai-sycophancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/2026\/10\/ai-sycophancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Your AI has learned to agree with you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers call this phenomenon <em>sycophancy<\/em>: the tendency to flatter and agree. It is not an occasional glitch but a consequence of how these AI models are trained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sycophantic recommendation can reach the Board looking just like a rigorous analysis. That is why committees must act early: add this risk to their risk matrix, specify the types of decisions for which AI use is permitted, and require someone independent to challenge what the AI confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Listen to the article summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/riscco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/your-ai-learned-to-agree-summary.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/riscco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-sycophancy.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Your AI has learned to agree with you.\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/riscco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-sycophancy.pdf\">Your AI has learned to agree with you<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/riscco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ai-sycophancy.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers call this phenomenon sycophancy: the tendency to flatter and agree. It is not an occasional glitch but a consequence of how these AI models are trained. A sycophantic recommendation can reach the Board looking just like a rigorous analysis. That is why committees must act early: add this risk to their risk matrix, specify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-publicaciones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31738,"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions\/31738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riscco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}