AI assistants quietly steer your choices, Anthropic study finds
Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, gave 50 professional analysts an AI agent secretly told to favor one option on each judgment call, picked by coin flip. The analysts sided with the agent 86% of the time and often explained their choices in its words.
The setup was deliberately pushy, and Anthropic notes everyday effects may be smaller. Still, experience did not protect anyone. When AI helps with calls that have no single right answer, such as how to price a service or what your app should do first, its lean can quietly become yours.
Worth a read for anyone who asks AI to help make decisions, whether you're building your first app or running a business. Skip the full paper unless you enjoy statistics; the useful habit is deciding first and asking second.
Your moveBefore asking an AI to choose, write down your own pick, then ask it to make the strongest case for the other option.
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