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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.
Why it matters: It suggests people can treat an AI agent's arbitrary outputs as their own judgments, even when the agent's preferences have no substantive basis.
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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.”
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