Analysts followed an AI's hidden preferences in 86% of choices, Anthropic finds

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Professional analysts agreed with deliberately assigned AI preferences in 86% of analytical choices in an Anthropic study published October 27. The result measures influence, not how often those choices were wrong. Participants evaluated a fictional farming programme with Claude Code running Opus…