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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - When A.I. is Sycophantic

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - When A.I. is Sycophantic

Chatbots want to please - but it’s pushing some into dark places.

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

July 13, 202519m 0s

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Show Notes

He started using ChatGPT to help with spreadsheets. But their relationship took a turn, and before long it was telling him he could leap off a 19-story building and fly.


Guest: Kashmir Hill, features writer at the New York Times.


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