R0042/2026-04-01/Q003/H3¶
Statement¶
No organization of any type has documented sycophancy reduction as an explicit AI design goal.
Status¶
Current: Eliminated
Supporting Evidence¶
| Evidence | Summary |
|---|---|
| None | No evidence supports a complete absence of anti-sycophancy work |
Contradicting Evidence¶
| Evidence | Summary |
|---|---|
| SRC01-E01 | Anthropic has made anti-sycophancy an explicit design goal since 2022 |
| SRC02-E01 | Multiple organizations have achieved measurable sycophancy reduction |
Reasoning¶
H3 is clearly eliminated. Multiple organizations have documented anti-sycophancy as an explicit design goal — most prominently Anthropic, which has built sycophancy evaluation into its model development pipeline since before Claude's first public release.
Relationship to Other Hypotheses¶
H3 is the null hypothesis. Its elimination confirms that anti-sycophancy work is real and active — the question is only about WHO is doing it and in what context.