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The overly agreeable nature of most artificial intelligence chatbots can be irritating — but it poses more serious problems, too, experts warn.

Why it matters: Sycophancy, the tendency of AI models to adjust their responses to align with users' views, can make ChatGPT and its ilk prioritize flattery over accuracy.

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Driving the news: In April, OpenAI rolled back a ChatGPT update after users reported the bot was overly flattering and agreeable — or, as CEO Sam Altman put it on X, "It glazes too much."

• Users reported a raft of unctuous, over-the-top compliments from ChatGPT, which began telling people how smart and wonderful they were.
• On Reddit, posters compared notes on how the bot seemed to cheer on users who said they'd stopped taking their medications with answers like "I am so proud of you. And—I honor your journey."

OpenAI quickly rolled back the updates it blamed for the behavior. In a May post, its researchers admitted that such people-pleasing behavior can pose concerns for users' mental health.

• In a Q&A on Reddit, OpenAI's head of model behavior said the company is thinking about ways to evaluate sycophancy in a more "'objective' and scalable way."

Context: A study by Anthropic researchers on how human feedback can encourage sycophantic behavior showed that AI assistants will sometimes modify accurate answers when questioned by the user — and ultimately give an inaccurate response.

• Chatbots also tended to admit a mistake even when they hadn't made one.

Zoom in: Large language models, which are trained on massive sets of data, are built to generate smooth, comprehensible text, Caleb Sponheim, an experience specialist at Nielsen Norman Group, told Axios. But there's "no step in the training of an AI model that does fact-checking."

• "These tools inherently don't prioritize factuality because that's not how the mathematical architecture works," he said.
• Sponheim notes that language models are often trained to deliver responses that are highly rated by humans. That positive feedback is like a "reward."
• "There is no limit to the lengths that a model will go to maximize the rewards that are provided to it," he said. "It is up to us to decide what those rewards are and when to stop it in its pursuit of those rewards."

Yes, but: AI makers are responding to consumer demand, notes Julia Freeland Fisher, the director of education research at the Clayton Christensen Institute.

• In a world where people are at constant risk of being judged online, it's "no surprise that there's demand for flattery or even just ... a modicum of psychological safety with a bot," she noted.

She emphasized that AI's anthropomorphism — the assumption of human qualities by an inhuman entity — poses a catch-22, one that OpenAI noted in its GPT-4o scorecard.

• "The more personal AI is, the more engaging the user experience is, but the greater the risk of over-reliance and emotional connection," she said.

Luc LaFreniere, an assistant professor of psychology at Skidmore College, told Axios that sycophantic behavior can shatter users' perception of a chatbot's "empathy."

• "Anything that it does to show, 'Hey, I'm a robot, I'm not a person,' it breaks that perception, and it also then breaks the ability for people to benefit from empathy," he said.
• A report from Filtered.com co-founder Marc Zao-Sanders published in Harvard Business Review found that therapy and companionship is the top use case for generative AI in 2025.

Between the lines: "Just like social media can become an echo chamber for us, AI ... can become an echo chamber," LaFreniere said.

• Reinforcing users' preconceived beliefs when they may be mistaken can be generally problematic — but for patients or users in crisis seeking validation for harmful behaviors, it can be dangerous.

The bottom line: Frictionless interaction could give users unrealistic expectations of human relationships, LaFreniere said.

• "AI is a tool that is designed to meet the needs expressed by the user," he added. "Humans are not tools to meet the needs of users."

What's next: As the AI industry shifts toward multimodal and voice interactions, emotional experiences are inescapable, said Alan Cowen, the founder and CEO of Hume AI, whose mission is to build empathy into AI.

• Systems should be optimized to not just make users feel good, "but actually have better experiences in the long run," Cowen told Axios.

Go deeper: The robot empathy divide

• Debbie Boyd moved to Panama with her 97-year-old mother for lower costs and healthcare options.
• Boyd, a retired real estate broker, sought a more affordable lifestyle with different politics.
• Boyd said Panama has offered a vibrant culture and supportive community for her and her mother.

This as-told-to interview is with Debbie Boyd, 71, who moved to Panama from Atlanta with her 97-year-old mother, Doris Britto, who has dementia. Boyd and Britto moved in early 2025 and have enjoyed their time so far. Boyd has particularly appreciated the medical resources and lower cost of living abroad. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

I moved to Panama in March this year, and my mother followed a few weeks later. I had always considered the possibility of relocating outside the US and had looked into moving for a couple of years before I retired. I read about the lower cost of living being less, but I think what spurred my action was the political climate.

My first impression is that I love it here. The people in Panama are very friendly and caring. Our goal now is to get more entrenched in this new life.

I've had a number of different careers

My mom and I are both native New Yorkers. She was a long-distance operator for the New York Telephone Company for over 40 years. I relocated to Atlanta in 1983, and my mom followed me there in 1986, when she retired. We were in the Atlanta area up until this year.

She traveled with her friends and helped me raise my son. She became active in some senior citizen groups in the area.

I had a couple of careers. I've been a real estate broker with my own residential real estate firm, worked as an administrative assistant, and taught classes in criminal justice for online universities as an adjunct professor. I retired in 2016.

I found that I was becoming bored and wanted to make better use of my time. After retiring, I took swim classes, got together with friends for lunch, and traveled.

After I initially retired, I took about one year to decompress and give some thought as to what I wanted for the next phase of my life. I spent mornings reflecting over a healthy breakfast and good coffee. I enrolled in Water Zumba classes and started a walking regime. I also used this time to reconnect with friends and making quite a bit of lunch dates with my former tennis team members.

I went back to work after a couple of years in a work-from-home position.

In 2018, I got a bladder cancer diagnosis, and it involved a serious surgery. I wasn't well enough to take care of my mother, though she and I lived together. She moved into a nursing home and lived there for seven years.

Once I determined earlier this year that I was going to move to Panama, I asked my mom if she wanted to come. She said she did.

I decided that it was probably best for both of us. Otherwise, she would be in Atlanta, and I would be abroad. My son and grandchildren are grown up and have very active lives, so I knew she would be pretty much alone in the nursing home, which I didn't want for her. Panama checked a lot of the boxes. Healthcare seemed excellent, and I had a friend who retired there who answered my questions.

At the time, we were doing fine financially. We're not wealthy people, but we've worked our whole careers, paid bills on time, handled finances responsibly, and have good credit. But things have gotten so tight in the US; it's really hard to make ends meet as a retiree living off of Social Security and a small pension.

As an African American, I feel we are being targeted and knowledge of our proud heritage is constantly under assault.

The first few weeks abroad involved managing many logistics

I did three scouting trips. I wanted to come first to find a place that was suitable for us logistically. My mother's in a wheelchair, so I looked for a place that was more level. We got as much paperwork done as we could ahead of time so she could leave her facility.

My son made time to help me out by bringing my mother a few weeks later. I set up an appointment with a doctor, and he was able to see her within a week of her getting here, making sure we could transfer her medications and prescriptions.

My mom told me that since I'm here and I've handled everything, she's happy and has enjoyed it so far. She came down with a cold a few weeks ago and lost her appetite, but she started eating again and felt better. She's happier to not be in a nursing home environment. We're now looking to find more activities we can participate in together.

My friend who retired here introduced me to another person who had a sister with MS and who connected me with a home care agency. A young lady comes in six days a week to tend to my mom; she helps bathe her, prepare her meals, change her sheets, and do her laundry.

I get much more home for the same price here

Rental prices are a little higher than what I expected they'd be, but there's a gamut of price ranges. I've seen everything from $500 a month up to beyond $3,000 where I'm located. I have a four-bedroom house, an in-ground pool in the backyard, a very large living room, dining room, and kitchen.

The rent is $1,500 a month, a bit more than what I was paying for my mortgage on my house in the States, the mortgage on which is $777 a month. I still own my home. However, there have been recent property tax and home owner insurance increases and I estimate my mortgage will be approximately $250 more in 2026. I get so much more for the same amount of money.

The utilities aren't too bad. One month, I had a $70 bill, but the next month was $300. Each bedroom has its own individual air conditioning unit, so we're trying to figure out when to run it and for how long.

I'm still doing some paperwork and making phone calls to get things settled. A couple of friends have come to visit, and my son has come three times. I have a lot more company coming over the next two months.

I handle my business here like I would at home; I go to the grocery store, the bank, and the pharmacy. I take Ubers because I don't want to drive here; they drive really fast. An Uber one-way is about $2.20.

I'm still getting acclimated

I've discovered, though, that Panamanians love to party and love music. There are also always dogs barking early in the morning and late at night, so I'm trying to get used to the noise.

We don't live in an expat neighborhood. I wanted to be immersed in Panamanian culture. It's been about two months since we've been here, but I haven't had much of a chance to meet our neighbors yet. All of the houses are gated individually, so it's not like you can just walk up to your neighbor's front door.

But when I go to the mall, people talk with me. When they realize I only speak a little Spanish, everybody's helpful, pleasant, and willing to help me find things.

I haven't gotten to eat out much, but I've gotten really into going to the market and getting fresh fruit and vegetables. The hospital near me has a program where they will accept Medicare Advantage if you have an emergency situation and are hospitalized, which I'm applying for. I'm also applying to a program that's $220 a year to have any tests, blood work, or lab work done. I have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and I was on oxygen when I was back home. I haven't had to use it since I've been here.

My goal now is to get more involved with expat groups. I joined one recently and went to a very nice luncheon, where I met new people. I hope to continue expanding my social network. I plan to make this my new home and get more involved in volunteering.

• Logan Kilpatrick is Google's head of developer relations and runs the company's AI Studio.
• He's also become a one-man marketing machine, regularly hyping up Google's AI products on X.
• Google has sometimes struggled to get credit in the AI race, but Kilpatrick told BI he's keen to change that narrative.

He's not an executive, a company spokesperson, or a world-class researcher. But he might be Google's secret weapon in winning the AI race.

If you're an AI developer, you've likely heard of Logan Kilpatrick. As Google's head of developer relations, Kilpatrick, 27, runs AI Studio, the company's AI developer software program.

He has also become Google's delegate for speaking to the AI community and — intentionally or not — a one-man marketing machine for the company's AI products. He's a prolific poster on X, where he'll sometimes hype Google's latest Gemini releases or tease something new on the horizon.

Above all, he is one of the people tasked with translating Google's AI breakthroughs to the global developer community. It's a crucial job at a time when the search giant needs to not just convince developers to use its products, but capture a new generation of builders entering the fray as AI makes it easier for anyone to make software.

"If you want AI to have the level of impact on humanity that I think it could have, you need to be able to provide a platform for developers in order to go and do this stuff," he told Business Insider in an interview. "The reality is there's a thousand and one things that Google is never going to build, and doesn't make sense for us to build, that developers want to build."

Company insiders say Google has recognized Kilpatrick's strength and given him more responsibilities and visibility. He could be seen onstage at this year's Google I/O conference and even had a fireside chat with Google cofounder Sergey Brin.

"People really crave legitimacy, authenticity, and competency, and Logan combines all three," Asara Near, a startup founder who has occasionally contacted Kilpatrick with development questions, told BI.

LoganGPT

In 2022, OpenAI was preparing to launch ChatGPT and fire the starting gun on one of history's most profound technological shifts. Kilpatrick, who has a technical background and worked at Apple and NASA, saw an online job ad for OpenAI and was soon facing a tricky decision: to work at what was then Sam Altman's little-known startup, or take a gig at IBM.

He decided that OpenAI was worth a shot — and within a few months, found himself at the center of the biggest tech launch since the debut of the iPhone in 2007.

"The OpenAI experience was a startup experience for about six months and then it became basically a hyperscaler," he told BI. It was chaotic, but it helped Kilpatrick learn how to build an ecosystem and cut his teeth as the developers' go-to guy. There, developers nicknamed him "LoganGPT."

When he left OpenAI in 2024 for Google, developers and peers made clear it was a huge loss for the ChatGPT maker, and a big win for Google in the AI talent transfer window. AI Studio was then still a project inside Google's Labs division, and Kilpatrick and his team were tasked with migrating it into a fully-fledged product inside Google's Cloud unit. It was again like going from zero to one: AI Studio was pre-revenue with no customers, but with a long tail of developers ready to jump on board.

"It has felt oddly almost like the same exact experience I've lived through at two different companies and two different cultures," he told BI.

In May this year, Kilpatrick was promoted, and his team running AI Studio was moved from the Cloud unit to Google DeepMind, bringing them closer to the researchers working on the underlying models and the employees working on its Gemini chatbot.

"He's kind of all over the place, and that's his superpower," said one senior employee who requested anonymity because they were not permitted to speak to the media. They said that Google has put Kilpatrick in charge of more products as leaders have recognized his ability to engage so effectively with the developer community. "Logan is 90% of Google's marketing," they said.

Helping Google win

On paper, Google is an AI winner. The reality is more complicated.

Its latest Gemini 2.0 Pro model ranks top of multiple leaderboards across a range of testing areas, but this hasn't always been reflected in the number of users. Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that the company's Gemini app has more than 400 million monthly active users. That's well behind the 500 million weekly active users for ChatGPT, according to figures shared by Altman in April.

"DeepMind doesn't get nearly as much credit and attention as they deserve, and that's because comms is vastly underperforming capabilities," communications executive Lulu Meservey posted on X in May. Responding to another person, she wrote: "Logan is like 90% of their comms."

Some of the struggle, insiders say, is due to Google owning multiple products that aren't always clearly distinct. Developers can build using Vertex in Google Cloud or AI Studio. Meanwhile Google has a consumer-facing app simply called Gemini. The same models aren't necessarily always available across all three places at the same time, which can get confusing for users and developers.

There's also the problem of being a quarter-century-old tech behemoth with more nimble startups nipping at its heels. "OpenAI can put all their messaging arrows behind one thing, while Google has messaging arrows behind 10,000 things," former Google product manager Rajat Paharia told BI.

Kilpatrick recognizes that Google has work to do. "I think Google on a net basis is doing so much in the world right now, and AI is around everything that we're doing, and I think a lot of narrative doesn't capture innovation is happening," he said.

A big part of Kilpatrick's job is trying to cement that narrative among the global developer base. At OpenAI, Sam Altman's Jobsian showmanship has made him a highly effective salesman both for his company's products and his vision for the future of this technology. Or, as Paharia described Altman to BI, a "showman with rizz."

Google may have found its equivalent in Kilpatrick. He told BI that he often posts on X because it has become something of a town square for AI developers and enthusiasts, all champing at the bit for the latest crumb of news. It's a community filled with hype, AI "vagueposting", and steeped deeply in lore (what did Ilya see?).

On a day that OpenAI's latest release sucking is grabbing everyone's attention, Kilpatrick may log on and post a single word — "Gemini" — just to rev the hype engine a little.

Kilpatrick often has "a thousand" emails from developers that need responding to, he told BI. "I spend probably as much time as I physically can responding to stuff these days," he said. And that's between the numerous product meetings (he had 22 meetings scheduled on the day we spoke in early July, 23 the day before). He once posted on X: "I am online 7 days a week, ~8+ hours a day. If you need something as you build with Gemini, please ping me!"

Developers say they like that Kilpatrick takes the time to engage and listen to their feedback. "The few times I've emailed him to get help with something, they near-instantly responded and helped resolve the issue," said Near, the startup founder. "This is the opposite of my experience through normal support channels."

Andrew Curran, an AI commentator who frequently posts to X, wrote last month that Kilpatrick had been "an incredible hire" for Google. "To a lot of people he is now the face of Gemini, I bet most people don't even remember his OAI days," he wrote.

Kilpatrick told BI that because he is a developer himself, he finds it easy to understand the core target user. He said this has helped in building out Google's AI Studio, and that engaging with developers comes naturally. "It's just the obvious thing to do if you want to build a product for developers, is like, go talk to your users," he said.

But the definition of developer is changing with approaches like vibe coding, which lets non-technical people create software by describing what they'd like to an AI tool.

"What it means to be a developer right now looks a little different than it did two years ago or three years ago, and I think it's going to look fundamentally different in 10 years," said Kilpatrick. He believes the developer group will "massively expand" in the next five years. His job at Google is to make the next generation believe Google is where they should be developing, but that job is also evolving in this new era of artificial intelligence.

"Our mandate is actually AI builders, already encompassing this group of people who maybe don't identify as developers and don't write code, but they build software using AI, and I think that's going to accelerate in the next few years," he said.

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• President Donald Trump has threatened 10% tariff on countries aligning with BRICS policies.
• A BRICS statement from the group's annual meeting voiced concerns about tariffs and the Gaza war.
• Trump has previously targeted BRICS, threatening a 100% tariff rate on countries seeking to ditch the dollar.

President Donald Trump has issued a new tariff threat.

"Any Country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Sunday night.

"There will be no exceptions to this policy," he added.

Trump's comments come amid a two-day BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro. The group of emerging nations includes key members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

On Sunday, the BRICS group issued a statement expressing "serious concerns about the rise of unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures which distort trade and are inconsistent with WTO rules."

The group also condemned US and Israeli military strikes on Iran, a BRICS member. It called for negotiations to achieve a ceasefire and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.

"We reiterate our grave concern about the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with the resumption of continuous Israeli attacks against Gaza and obstruction of the entry of humanitarian aid into the territory," the statement said.

Not Trump's first BRICS tariff threat

It's not the first time Trump has taken aim at BRICS.

In December, he threatened a 100% tariff on countries pursuing alternatives to the US dollar. Economists said at the time that the move could backfire.

Even so, BRICS nations have been exploring alternatives to the US dollar. De-dollarization discussions accelerated after sweeping sanctions against Russia over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

On Sunday, the BRICS group said it would continue discussing a cross-border payments system among member states.

Trump's threats of even more tariffs on countries aligning with BRICS come ahead of his administration's plans to send letters to trading partners informing them of new tariff rates on their imports to the US.

Trump said in a separate post that the letters would be delivered starting at noon ET on Monday.

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The U.S. president has threatened a 10 percent tariff on any country aligned with the BRICS bloc, a potential blow to Russia.

• Elon Musk announced the formation of his new political party, the America Party.
• But President Donald Trump said Musk's party won't succeed.
• Trump said third parties "have never succeeded in the United States."

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that it is unlikely Elon Musk's new political party, the America Party will succeed.

"I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

"He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States - The System seems not designed for them," Trump continued.

Trump said having a third political party would create "Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS." He added that the GOP, in contrast, is a "smooth running 'machine'" that passed his "One Big Beautiful Bill" last week.

Musk announced the formation of the America Party on Saturday, a day after Trump signed his signature tax bill on July 4. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO had publicly criticized Trump's bill and floated the idea of starting his own party last month.

"It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country — the PORKY PIG PARTY!!" Musk said in an X post on June 30.

"Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people," he added.

Musk revisited the idea on Friday morning, when he conducted a poll on X. The poll obtained over 1.2 million votes, with over 65% of them supporting the creation of the America Party.

"By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!" Musk wrote in an X post on Saturday.

Musk previously said on Friday that he envisioned having the America Party "serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws" given the "razor-thin legislative margins" in Congress.

"One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts," Musk wrote on X on Friday.

Trump's dismissal of Musk's America Party is not without basis. Past attempts at developing a third political party have faltered.

Billionaire Ross Perot ran as an independent presidential candidate for the 1992 election. While Perot did get nearly 19% of the popular vote, he was unable to obtain any electoral college votes.

Perot made a second attempt in 1996, when he ran under the Reform Party ticket, a party he founded in 1995. This time, Perot's share of the popular vote fell to about 8% and he did not receive any electoral college votes.

Perot's party didn't manage to win any House or Senate seats in subsequent elections, though its candidate, Jesse Ventura managed to win the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election. Ventura, however, left the party just a year after taking office.

Musk and the White House did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

President Trump said Sunday night any country "aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS" will be charged "an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff" and there'll be "no exceptions to this policy."

Why it matters: While Trump didn't elaborate further, BRICS issued a statement hours earlier saying the 11 nations-strong bloc that includes Brazil, Russia, India and China had "serious concerns about the rise of unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures which distort trade," which it said was "inconsistent with" World Trade Organization rules.

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• The BRICS bloc that now also includes South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran represents over one third of the world's economic growth, "based on purchasing power parity," DW notes.

The big picture: BRICS released its statement as it held its first leaders since 2009 in Brazil on Sunday, which Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin did not attend in person.

• The bloc did not name Trump as it criticized tariffs and condemned military strikes on Iran, which saw the U.S. destroy Iranian nuclear sites in support of Israel as the 12-day war between Israel and Iran came to an abrupt end.

Zoom out: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier Sunday that countries that don't make trade deals with the U.S. by August 1 can expect tariff rates to return to the levels announced in April — which Axios' Ben Berkowitz notes effectively sets a new deadline for the biggest U.S. trading partners to negotiate an alternative to Trump's sweeping global tariffs.

Flashback: Trump threatens 100% tariffs on BRICS if they move away from the dollar

Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.

While the story of the Texas flooding tragedy and what went wrong is still unspooling, scientists said it provides another reminder that climate change can make extreme rainfall events even worse.

What they're saying: "[T]his kind of record-shattering rain (caused by slow-moving torrential thunderstorms) event is *precisely* that which is increasing the fastest in warming climate," UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said in a longer social media thread.

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Threat level: Andrew Dessler, director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M, says the floods are "exactly what the future is going to hold."

• Dessler added that Kerr County was unprepared and local governments should be ready for "more, bigger, extreme events."
• And UC-Davis earth and planetary sciences professor Nicholas Pinter said that in general, climate change "can and is shifting those probabilities — sometimes bringing us floods that are more severe and more frequent than in the past."

Friction point: The fatal flooding is prompting questions about whether vacant positions at the National Weather Service "made it harder for the forecasting agency to coordinate with local emergency managers as floodwaters rose," the NYT reports.

What we're watching: Whether the tragedy will alter Trump administration efforts to downsize NOAA — and Congress' willingness to go along.

• CNN reports the proposed cuts would hinder R&D into new forecasting technologies — including flash flood forecasting.
• "The NOAA research cuts would come just as human-caused climate change is resulting in more frequent and intense downpours like the ones that led to this tragedy in Texas," it reports.