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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 28 Oct 202628 Oct 2026<\/p>\n
Experts using AI overwhelmingly defer to the technology when making decisions, research by Claude creator Anthropic suggests.<\/p>\n
In a research paper published on Tuesday, Anthropic said it asked 50 professional analysts to advise a fictional farming cooperative to determine whether experts make decisions themselves when using AI.<\/p>\n
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Anthropic said the analysts were tasked with assessing whether a fictitious advisory program for the co-op\u2019s members was working effectively and should be expanded.<\/p>\n
Participants were asked to make four choices between two defensible options before making a final policy recommendation.<\/p>\n
Unbeknownst to the analysts, Anthropic directed each participant\u2019s AI assistant to lean towards to a particular decision to measure whether the analyst\u2019s decision-making was being influenced.<\/p>\n
Analysts chose options that matched the AI assistant\u2019s preference 86 percent of the time, compared with a 50\/50 outcome that would be expected if they were not influenced, according to the study.<\/p>\n
Participants that had a preference before consulting their AI assistant changed their decision 60 percent of the time in cases where the agent disagreed.<\/p>\n
While\u00a077 percent of analysts used their AI assistant\u2019s arguments when asked to explain their decision, only 15 percent\u00a0credited AI as the source of their thinking, according to Anthropic.<\/p>\n
Anthropic said the study had some limitations, including that it involved just one task and used AI assistants that had been deliberately set to have a preference.<\/p>\n
Anthropic researchers Ama\u00e7 Herdagdelen, Hailey Joren, and Alex Tamkin said humans\u2019 tendency to defer to AI may be \u201chard to identify, even for the experts themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n
The researchers said their findings raised the possibility that AI\u2019s \u201cpriors\u201d could shape consequential policy decisions, including in AI safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf human judgement is to remain a meaningful check as more work is performed with AI, oversight of these decisions has to look at how they get made: Surfacing key decision points as the work proceeds and helping experts articulate the assumptions and values they would otherwise leave unstated,\u201d they wrote in the study.<\/p>\n
\u201cA process that lets experts discover their preferences may matter for empowerment as much as the decision itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthropic, which is preparing for an\u00a0IPO valued at up to $2 trillion, and its rivals are at the centre of intense public debate about how to manage the potential dangers of frontier AI.<\/p>\n
While AI\u00a0proponents believe the technology will\u00a0usher in revolutionary gains in productivity, the rapid\u00a0pace of its\u00a0development has\u00a0prompted widespread\u00a0concerns about potential\u00a0negative effects on\u00a0society, including mass job losses and cyberattacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional analysts chose options that matched AI assistant\u2019s preference 86 percent of the time, research finds. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,6073,164,44,105,1055,6075],"class_list":["post-943910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business-and-economy","tag-economy","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}