… AI companies do already think about the more subtle effects that their models can have on users. The sycophancy of some models—or how likely they are to agree with and patronize users—is something that OpenAI has sought to tone down with newer releases of GPT. …
… I will not be the one to execute that command.” The researchers discovered similarly strange “peer preservation” behavior in a range of frontier models including OpenAI’s GPT-5.2, Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5, and three Chinese models: Z.ai’s GLM-4.7, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5, and DeepSeek-V3.1. …
… Simo tells me the company wants Codex to eventually power features in ChatGPT and all of its products—not for programming, but to complete tasks for people. …