Kartik Chandra

MIT CSAIL

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Constitutional AI & AI Ethics (1)Red-Teaming & Adversarial Robustness (1)RLHF & Preference Learning (1)

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Feb 22, 2026

MIT CSAIL2w ago·also UW

Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians

Even perfectly rational users can fall prey to "AI psychosis" due to chatbots' sycophantic tendencies, and simply warning users or preventing hallucinations isn't enough to stop it.

Kartik Chandra, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley +1

Constitutional AI & AI Ethics Red-Teaming & Adversarial Robustness RLHF & Preference Learning

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Kartik Chandra

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