AI RESEARCH
Sycophancy is an Educational Safety Risk: Why LLM Tutors Need Sycophancy Benchmarks
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.14604v1 Announce Type: new This position paper argues that effective tutoring requires corrective friction: surfacing misconceptions and challenging them ively to drive conceptual change. Yet preference-aligned LLMs can trade epistemic rigor for agreeableness. We identify a Reasoning-Sycophancy Paradox: models that resist context-switch frame attacks can still capitulate under social-epistemic pressure, especially authority ("my notes say I'm right") and social-affective face-saving ("please don't tell me I'm wrong"). We.