If your AI is still being sycophantic, here’s how to solve it Option 1: “here is my research paper – be critical of it please” Option 2: “here is my research paper – spin up subagents to review the paper from the lens of Statler and Waldorf and Siskel and Ebert and
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US measures and Anthropic restrict access to AI
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Over the past two weeks, both the US government and Anthropic have taken significant measures that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with cutting-edge models. This has been one of those
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Stanford Health AI Week: patient collaboration, trust, and AI discoveries
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Speakers at the Stanford Health AI Week discussed patient collaboration in developing AI tools, building trust with doctors and patients, and how AI accelerates discoveries impacting diagnosis and treatment. Explore the big ideas here: https://
med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/
2026/06/stanford-health-ai-week.html
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Research on anthropomorphic misalignment requires stronger evidence
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« Position: Research on anthropomorphic misalignment needs stronger evidence » AI safety papers often claim that models are deceptive, calculating, or concerned with self-preservation, but many results do not show
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Research on AI undermining versus supporting thinking and learning
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I talk about the research on when AI undermines, versus supporting, thinking and learning here:
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Students’ instinct to use AI for homework undermines learning
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The instinct of students is often to use AI to help with homework, even if they are not trying to cheat. And because off-the-shelf chatbots are a helpful assistant, rather than a tutor, they give you the answer and undermine learning. Paper:
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AI hallucination falsely detects brain tumor in patient
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It’s all fun and games until AI hallucinates a tumor in your brain.
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Public opinion turns against AI
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We still have a lot of work to do. Public opinion is increasingly turning against AI. Movements are opposing data centers, and now AI in general; resentment is only growing. Although there are undeniably…
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Government shuts down Claude AI that beat Opus benchmarks
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7 days ago a government order took the most powerful Claude offline.
It beat Opus on almost every benchmark.
It did a 2-month job for Stripe in a day.
Now nobody can touch it. I still run its best move on Opus 4.8 every day.
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Balancing AI Innovation and Risk with Minimum Viable Governance
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Balance #AI #Innovation and risk with ‘minimum viable governance’
by Kristin Burnham @MITSloan Learn more: https://
bit.ly/4xw0XE8 #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML