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PLA Daily warns against the AI yes-man in the war room

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What happened: The PLA Daily recently ran a military-theory essay urging commanders to guard against "AI sycophancy," or the tendency of AI to tell users what they want to hear.

The piece frames sycophancy as a cognitive "soft-kill" threat on an intelligent battlefield.

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