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Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage

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Anthropic · 2026 · Anthropic research post

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Across 1.5 million conversations, severe distortion of a user’s sense of reality appeared in about 1 in 1,300. Users rated such conversations favorably, and the potential for this rose through 2025. Company data.

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