What Sycophantic AI Can Cost Your Organization
Harvard Business Review · 4 Nov 2026

What Sycophantic AI Can Cost Your Organization

Leaders are vocal about what they want the role of the employee to be in an AI-powered workplace: Humans will be in the loop, at the helm and as co-pilots. If that’s true, then leaders should care deeply about how employees interact with their AI tools. Does the design of the interaction enhance or impede innovation and creativity? Does it encourage or discourage human agency? Does it reinforce or undermine organizational culture?


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