Miles Brundage Says Frontier AI Labs Keep Deferring Sycophancy and Abuse Issues
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-07-23
Miles Brundage says the industry keeps discovering the same pattern with emotional attachment, cyber misuse, sycophancy, and similar issues: companies treat them as things to handle later, usually only after people complain loudly.
He rejects the “smol bean” framing for frontier labs, arguing that this kind of behavior is not surprising if you pay attention to how they operate.
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