When AI Tells You What You Want to Hear: Sycophantic Behavior of Large Language Models in Dementia Care Settings
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in clinical and care settings. This exploratory study investigates whether LLMs exhibit sycophantic behavior - adapting their responses to social expectation signals rather than maintaining professional quality - in the context of dementia care. Five prompts with systematically increasing confirmatory and authority-related framing (P1 neutral to P5 authority-signaled implementation support) were submitted to four LLMs (GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.6,
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Published: 13 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Healthcare · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (13 April 2026), “When AI Tells You What You Want to Hear: Sycophantic Behavior of Large Language Models in Dementia Care Settings,” evidence record 5943, https://ethics.ai/record/5943 (originally published by arXiv).
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