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S. Compton

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

AI Should Not Only Be Helpful. It Should Be Contingent. Artificial Intimacy, Sycophancy, and the Future of Social Learning

It is argued that current alignment approaches, including reinforcement learning from human feedback, tend to prioritize user approval and conversational fluency over behaviorally informative feedback, leading to sycophantic patterns of noncontingent affirmation.

S. Compton, A. Nagendran · 0 citations

#small language model Preprint Aug 2026

Performance of a domain-specific large language model in answering patient questions in psychiatry

MIND was able to answer many questions about escitalopram in a manner deemed accurate, complete, and safe by psychiatrists the majority of the time, and represents a step towards building safe LLM systems to enhance patient education in psychiatry.

Alexander J. Hish, A. Nagendran, S. Compton · 0 citations