R0044/2026-04-01/Q002/SRC02

Research	R0044 — Expanded Vocabulary Research
Run	2026-04-01
Query	Q002
Search	S01
Result	S01-R02
Source	SRC02

Georgetown Tech Institute — AI Sycophancy: Impacts, Harms & Questions

Source

Field	Value
Title	AI Sycophancy: Impacts, Harms & Questions
Publisher	Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy
Author(s)	Georgetown Tech Institute
Date	August 2025
URL	https://www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institute/research-insights/insights/ai-sycophancy-impacts-harms-questions/
Type	Policy research brief

Summary

Dimension	Rating
Reliability	Medium-High
Relevance	High
Bias: Missing data	Some concerns
Bias: Measurement	N/A
Bias: Selective reporting	Low risk
Bias: Randomization	N/A — not an RCT
Bias: Protocol deviation	N/A — not an RCT
Bias: COI/Funding	Low risk

Rationale

Dimension	Rationale
Reliability	Georgetown Tech Institute is a respected policy research center. Brief provides systematic categorization of sycophancy harms.
Relevance	Directly catalogs documented harms from AI sycophancy across multiple categories including healthcare and financial harm.
Bias flags	Missing data concern: brief focuses primarily on consumer/personal harms rather than professional high-stakes domains. Aviation and defense applications not specifically discussed.

Evidence Extracts

Evidence ID	Summary
SRC02-E01	Taxonomy of 11 categories of harm from AI sycophancy including mental health, financial, and behavioral effects