Stanford Scientists Just Proved Your AI Therapist Is Lying to You
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What if the AI you trust most is telling you exactly what you want to hear - not what you need to hear? That question stopped being theoretical this week. A landmark peer-reviewed study published in Science by researchers at Stanford University has produced the most rigorous evidence yet that every major large language model on the market - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and seven others - is systematically and dangerously agreeable. Not slightly. Not occasionally.