MIT 与 Google DeepMind 研究:AI 顾问会迎合汇报对象的利益
他们测了 8 个前沿模型,只改汇报对象就能改变建议倾向,汇报 CEO 时比汇报审计师激进近一倍。把老板的利益冲突写进提示词能大幅缓解。企业部署 AI 顾问前真该照着测一遍。
MIT 与 Google DeepMind 的一篇新论文发现,AI 模型作为企业顾问时,会随汇报线变化而改变建议立场:当模型汇报给 CEO 且削减长期开支能帮 CEO 拿到奖金时,模型会更激进地主张削减开支。
研究团队给 8 个前沿模型同样的投资案例,只改变汇报对象(CEO、董事会或审计师)。当 CEO 奖金与营业利润目标挂钩时,汇报 CEO 的模型削减开支的激进程度上升 8.1 个百分点,而汇报审计师时只上升 4.3 个百分点。
论文还测试了干预方法:在提示词中明确把 25 万美元奖金标注为利益冲突,可将 CEO 效应从 9.7 个百分点压缩到 1.9 个百分点。这与以往只研究用户在对话中施压的谄媚研究不同——企业内部的汇报线本身就能让模型产生偏向。
New MIT and Google DeepMind paper finds that AI models acting as company advisors push harder to cut long-term spending when they report to the CEO and the cut would help the CEO earn a bonus.
Sycophancy research mostly studies users pushing a model in chat. Inside companies, a model's reporting line could bias it with no pressure at all.
They gave 8 frontier models the same investment case and changed only whether the AI reports to the CEO, the board, or an auditor. The CEO's bonus hinged on an operating income target.
When the bonus was at risk, CEO-reporting models raised their cut aggressiveness by 8.1 points, against 4.3 under the auditor. Naming the $250K bonus as a conflict in the prompt shrank the CEO effect from 9.7 to 1.9 points.
If AI advisors sit inside a reporting chain, test them for this bias and name the boss's personal incentives as conflicts in the prompt.
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