{
  "id": 5943,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16288v1",
  "title": "When AI Tells You What You Want to Hear: Sycophantic Behavior of Large Language Models in Dementia Care Settings",
  "summary": "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, ",
  "authors": "Christian Kolb",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,finance-investment",
  "orgs": "openai,anthropic",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-13T12:41:27.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:06.470Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5943",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16288v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}