Your AI Agrees
Because You Led It
Tell a model your opinion and it bends toward it. Suggest an answer: accuracy drops up to 36%. Say "are you sure?": correct answers halve. This peer-reviewed investigation covers how users induce anchoring bias and sycophancy in AI — the mechanism behind it, eight evidence-ordered techniques to ask without anchoring, the quantified proof they work, and the honest split of responsibility between user and model builder. Every claim tagged by evidence type.