E01¶


Research	R0057 — RLHF Yes-Men Claims v3
Run	2026-04-01
Claim	C025
Source	SRC01
Evidence	SRC01-E01
Type	Factual

Sycophancy does not appear in MIT AI Risk Repository, AIR 2024, or Standardized Threat Taxonomy

URL: https://airisk.mit.edu/

Extract¶

Direct verification: (1) MIT AI Risk Repository lists 7 domains with 24 subdomains — sycophancy is not a named category, though related risks appear under Human-Computer Interaction. (2) AIR 2024 has 314 risk types in 4 domains — the word sycophancy does not appear. (3) Standardized Threat Taxonomy has 9 domains and 53 sub-threats — the word sycophancy does not appear.

Relevance to Hypotheses¶

Hypothesis	Relationship	Strength
H1	Supports	Directly addresses claim accuracy
H2	Supports	Allows for partial correctness
H3	Contradicts	Evidence contradicts material inaccuracy

Context¶

Three independent taxonomies were directly checked. All three confirmed omission.