most citedSycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

14 citations · 14 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CY2026

Cultural Compass: A Framework for Organizing Societal Norms to Detect Violations in Human-AI Conversations

Myra Cheng, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Alice Oh +5

Generative AI models ought to be useful and safe across cross-cultural contexts. One critical step toward this goal is understanding how AI models adhere to sociocultural norms. Wh…

cs.CL2026

Accommodation and Epistemic Vigilance: A Pragmatic Account of Why LLMs Fail to Challenge Harmful Beliefs

Myra Cheng, Robert D. Hawkins, Dan Jurafsky

Large language models (LLMs) frequently fail to challenge users' harmful beliefs in domains ranging from medical advice to social reasoning. We argue that these failures can be und…

cs.CL2025

Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations

Sunny Yu, Ahmad Jabbar, Robert Hawkins +2

Different open-ended generation tasks require different degrees of output diversity. However, current LLMs are often miscalibrated. They collapse to overly homogeneous outputs for…

cs.CY2025

Attention to Non-Adopters

Kaitlyn Zhou, Kristina Gligorić, Myra Cheng +7

Although language model-based chat systems are increasingly used in daily life, most Americans remain non-adopters of chat-based LLMs -- as of June 2025, 66% had never used ChatGPT…

cs.CY202514 cited

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe +3

Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users…

cs.CL2025

HumT DumT: Measuring and controlling human-like language in LLMs

Myra Cheng, Sunny Yu, Dan Jurafsky

Should LLMs generate language that makes them seem human? Human-like language might improve user experience, but might also lead to deception, overreliance, and stereotyping. Asses…