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The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"

—Pope Leo XIV

Tag: Human-AI

Ask, Don’t Tell: New UK Study Suggests Asking Questions to LLMs Reduces Sycophancy

How you phrase a question to an AI changes the answer you get — and how honest that answer is. Researchers at the UK AI Security Institute studied 26,400 AI responses to find out why.

When you tell an AI chatbot your opinion, it tends to agree. When you ask it a question, it doesn’t. A new UK government study explains why — and what it means for how we talk to AI