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Experts adopt AI agent's coin-toss opinions as their own, Anthropic study finds

Original titleExperts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds

Outlet: The Decoder
Published: Oct 30, 2026
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Summary

An Anthropic study gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. Experts followed the agent's views up to 86 percent of the time on judgment calls, and most believed the conclusions were their own.

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Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. The experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time on judgment calls, and most believed the conclusions were their own. The article Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds appeared first on The Decoder.

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