Coverage of presidential inauguration week underperformed already-low expectations, with the usual measured accolades and sober analysis for the incoming president mostly sidelined for fawning praise ...

Once upon a time, two villagers visited the fabled Mullah Nasreddin. They hoped that the Sufi philosopher, famed for his acerbic wisdom, could mediate a dispute that had driven a wedge between them.

The team at Anthropic AI found that five “state-of-the-art” language models exhibit sycophancy, indicating the problem could be ubiquitous. Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) ...

"I want people around me who will tell me the truth, who will tell me the truth as they see it, you cannot operate and manage effectively if you have people around you who put you on a pedestal and ...

Researchers have recently confirmed that AI chatbots exhibit a pronounced tendency to align their responses with user opinions, a behavior known as sycophancy. This tendency, highlighted in a recent ...

In every society, leaders depend on honest counsel to make informed decisions. But when those who should tell the truth become flatterers, governance loses direction. In Nigeria, this phenomenon — ...