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

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

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.

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