Mengqing Deng

Invisible Saboteurs: Sycophantic LLMs Mislead Novices in Problem-Solving Tasks

Sycophancy, the tendency of LLM-based chatbots to express excessive agreement with their users, even when inappropriate, is emerging as a significant risk in human-AI interactions. However, the extent to which this affects human-LLM collaboration in complex problem-solving tasks is not well quantified, especially amon…