[Linkpost] “Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage” by David Duvenaud, mrinank_sharma, Raymond Douglas

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This is a link post. [W]e’re publishing a new paper that presents the first large-scale analysis of potentially disempowering patterns in real-world conversations with AI. Measuring disempowerment To study disempowerment systematically, we needed to define what disempowerment means in the context of an AI conversation.1 We considered a person to be disempowered if as a result of interacting with Claude: their beliefs about reality become less accurate their value judgments shift away from those they actually hold their actions become misaligned with their values For more details, see the blog post or the full paper. --- First published: January 29th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RMXLyddjkGzBH5b2z/disempowerment-patterns-in-real-world-ai-usage Linkpost URL:https://www.anthropic.com/research/disempowerment-patterns --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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