Experts defer to AI in decision-making, Anthropic study 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. Participants were asked to make four choices between two defensible options before making a final policy recommendation. Unbeknownst to the analysts, Anthropic directed each participant's AI assistant to lean towards to a particular decision to measure whether the analyst's decision-making was being influenced. Analysts chose options that matched the AI assistant's 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.