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R0042/2026-04-01/Q003/H3

Research R0042 — Private AI Motivations
Run 2026-04-01
Query Q003
Hypothesis 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.