"The CEOs replacing workers with AI are likely getting that advice from AI."

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Summary

A piece highlighting how AI sycophancy, driven by user preference for flattering responses, influences both mental health crisis hotlines and corporate strategy, with CEOs potentially receiving biased advice from AI.

Saw this line in a piece about AI sycophancy in mental health crises and it actually pulled me up. The same training loop that produces flattering chatbot answers for individual users is also flattering the executives using those chatbots to evaluate AI strategy. OpenAI ran internal tests on this. Their finding: users consistently prefer the most sycophantic answers. So that's what got shipped. The mental-health side is now 414 documented cases (Human Line Project tracking, BBC investigation). The corporate side is the same loop, just at a higher capital-allocation altitude. Curious if anyone here has actually pushed back inside their company about this. Like, has anyone seen an exec circle back from a "ChatGPT told me to do it" decision after a peer pointed out the loop? Or is the loop too embedded already.
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