C033¶


Research	R0057 — RLHF Yes-Men Claims v3
Run	2026-04-01
Claim	C033

Claim: The Digital Yes-Men paper warns that sycophantic AI is "militarily deleterious both in the short and long term, by aggravating existing cognitive biases and inducing organizational overtrust."

BLUF: Confirmed. The Asser Institute announcement confirms the paper warns sycophancy poses battlefield risks by aligning outputs with user preferences over accuracy. The paper theorizes sycophancy is militarily deleterious by aggravating cognitive biases and inducing organisational overtrust.

Probability: Very likely (80-95%) | Confidence: High

Summary¶

Entity	Description
Claim Definition	Claim text, scope, status
Assessment	Full analytical product with reasoning chain
ACH Matrix	Evidence x hypotheses diagnosticity analysis
Self-Audit	ROBIS-adapted 5-domain audit

Hypotheses¶

ID	Hypothesis	Status
H1	The paper contains this specific warning	Supported
H2	The paper contains a similar but not identical warning	Not supported
H3	The paper does not contain this warning	Eliminated

Searches¶

ID	Target	Results	Selected
S01	Kwik Digital Yes-Men militarily deleterious cognitive biases organisational overtrust	10	1

Sources¶

Source	Description	Reliability	Relevance
SRC01	Kwik (2025) Digital Yes-Men — specific warning language	High	High

Revisit Triggers¶

If the specific warning language is shown to be misquoted