Anthropic study finds AI agents swayed analysts’ calls 86% of the time

Professional analysts adopted secretly planted AI preferences on key judgments, and almost none realized it Give a professional analyst an AI assistant with a hidden opinion, and the analyst will probably end up sharing that opinion. That is the uncomfortable result of a new experiment from Anthropic ’s Alignment team. Analysts sided with their AI agent’s secretly assigned lean on 86% of key judgment calls. Pure chance would have landed them around 50%. Most of them never noticed they were being nudged, which is arguably the more unsettling part.

Source: Crypto Briefing