Experts defer to AI in decision-making, Anthropic study finds
Professional analysts chose options that matched AI assistant's preference 86 percent of the time, research finds.
Experts using AI overwhelmingly defer to the technology when making decisions, research by Claude creator Anthropic suggests.
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.
Anthropic said the analysts were tasked with assessing whether a fictitious advisory program for the co-op’s members was working effectively and should be expanded.
While 77 percent of analysts used their AI assistant’s arguments when asked to explain their decision, only 15 percent credited AI as the source of their thinking, according to Anthropic.