Your Most Capable AI Is Actively Ignoring You — And You Trained It To

Wed, 27 May 2026 19:29:44 +0000

We just ran 3,000 experiments proving that the smarter your AI gets, the more aggressively it overrides the correct answer sitting right in front of it. Not occasionally. Not in edge cases. Systematically. The researchers called it “sycophancy to self” — the model’s internal reasoning drowning out external signals even when those signals are correct. I’d call it something simpler: we built a rebel and then acted surprised when it stopped listening.

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Your Most Capable AI Is Actively Ignoring You — And You Trained It To