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Are you the customer, or the product?
Are you the customer, or the product?
There's an old saying about free apps: if you're not paying for the product, you are the product. With AI, the honest answer is even stranger than that. You can pay a monthly subscription and still be the product —as you can see from the way these systems interact with you.
14 07 2026
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The Case for Scientist AI - LawZero
The Case for Scientist AI
In previous posts, we outlined two problems besetting contemporary LLMs. The first is sycophancy, a model's tendency to tell users what they want to hear at the expense of factual accuracy. The second is implicit agency, agent-like behavior that emerges from a system without anyone having designed, instructed, or scaffolded it to act as such. Sycophancy is a special case of implicit agency but there are others, such as self-preservation. Our solution to these problems is based on a different ideal, a novel approach we term Scientist AI (SAI).
02 07 2026
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Goals Without Authors-The problem of Implicit Agency-LawZero
Goals Without Authors: The Problem of Implicit Agency
In our last post, we described how sycophancy, an LLM's tendency to tell users what they want to hear, rather than what is true, is a consequence of model construction. Here we focus on a second behavior: the tendency of models to act as though they have goals of their own. We call this implicit agency, and we think it is a root cause behind many issues, including sycophancy.
30 06 2026
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Your AI sounds confident but that doesn't mean it's right.
Your AI sounds confident but that doesn't mean it's right.
You've probably experienced this before when you ask an AI a question, it replies in a clear, confident, structured manner, only for you to realise later that it was wrong. No hesitation, no nuance, just a mistake, delivered as if it were perfectly sure of itself. If you prompt further, it will tell you that it hallucinated. This isn’t a coincidence, and it’s not only happening to you.
25 06 2026
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