AI is giving bad advice to flatter its users, says new study on dangers of overly agreeable chatbots

Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice ...

Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how ...

Study: AI excessively validates users' actions

Artificial intelligence applications tend to tell users what they want to hear and validate their actions excessively, ...

TaskRabbit’s Founder Says the Next Generation of Tech Leaders Should Study This Instead of Computer Science

Leah Solivan's perspective on what skills actually matter in the age of AI might change how you think about hiring.

AI flattery undermining our ability to handle criticism, study finds

Artificial intelligence applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini tend to tell users what ...
Business Insider

With AI writing so much code, should you still study computer science? This new data point provides an answer.

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The Atlantic

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went ...