Sycophancy and skill

As AI becomes cheaper and better than humans at generating 'content,' the real value shifts to humans who can judge quality and understand different perspectives.

Sycophancy is the norm: model providers bias toward helpfulness and neutrality, while RLHF biases toward user satisfaction.

Outputs will always tend toward agreeing with users.

Assuming this remains true, the most important skills in the coming years will be using empathy to see all sides of an argument and thinking critically about outputs.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, these are the most crucial skills for being a leader.