🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”
You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.
The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.
Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.
Source: @heynavtoor
Critical thinking and reading are more important than ever in the GenAI era.
I am glad to share that our paper "LLM-based In-situ Thought Exchanges for Critical Paper Reading" has been accepted to #IUI 2026! 🎉 Please check: https://t.co/r8jZcvoDbz
Let’s rethink AI not as a shortcut, but as a catalyst for reflection, critical thinking, and long-term growth.
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Conversational AI is great at thinking for us.
But is it helping us think better?
At AHs 2026 (📅Mar 16, 📌Okinawa @ OIST), we’re hosting:
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Introducing Prism, a free workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2.
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Introducing soarXiv ✈️, the most beautiful way to explore human knowledge
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Citations matter—but the practice is messy.
We interviewed 12 researchers in HCI & AI and found fragmented workflows, cherry-picking 🍒 behaviors, and tool limitations.
Check out our CHI 2025 LBW (LBW-252) for details!
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🎉 I’ll be presenting our CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work!
📌"Exploring Practices, Challenges, and Design Implications for Citation Foraging, Management, and Synthesis"
📍 Poster No. LBW-252
🗓️ Catch me at the poster session on: Wed, Apr 30 | 10:30–11:10 & 15:40–16:20