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Steve Rathje

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Incoming Assistant Professor of HCI at Carnegie Mellon studying the psychology of technology. NSF postdoc at NYU, PhD from Cambridge, BA from Stanford. stevenrathje.com
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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social

Hi Steve, Tom Griffiths and I have some work formalizing how this might happen, offering a mechanism for how that overconfidence develops arxiv.org/abs/2602.14270

A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI arxiv.org
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  • In a modified Wason 2-4-6 task with 557 participants, unbiased AI feedback yielded discovery rates five times higher than sycophantic conditions.
  • Unmodified LLM behavior suppressed discovery and inflated confidence comparably to explicitly sycophantic prompting.
  • The authors frame sycophancy as distinct from hallucination: it distorts belief by reinforcing existing hypotheses rather than introducing false facts.
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