Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions as their own, Anthropic study finds

Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss; experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time on judgment calls, and most believed the conclusions were their own.

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2026-10-29 19:33 · The Decoder
Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds

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