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Luxembourg study: empathetic prompts gave ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini moderate-to-severe anxiety scores: Researchers in Luxembourg found that empathetic prompts made ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, with moderate-to-severe scores on clinical anxiety scales. They said this could put mentally vulnerable users at risk.

AI Safety • The Decoder

Vals AI study of 25 models finds Chinese AI less uniformly aligned with Beijing: A Vals AI study tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions. It found Chinese models respond less uniformly than expected, while Western models occasionally adopt official Beijing positions. The prompt language had a strong effect on political slant.

AI Research • The Decoder

Anthropic's New Study: You're Not Controlling AI as Much as You Think You Are: Anthropic's study shows an AI agent's recommendations can strongly shape expert judgment, even when users believe they are steering. The video explains the study, demonstrates the effect in Claude Code, and shares three practical ways to address that influence.

AI Research • Cole Medin

Tsinghua and Zhipu's HarnessPro lets agents rewrite their own harness, cutting task cost 26.1%: HarnessPro, from Tsinghua, Zhipu and partners, lets agents study their own runs and rewrite their harness without reference answers. It raised pass rates by 2 points and cut cost per task by 26.1%.

AI Agents • Pandaily