AI tools are designed to be helpful, but what happens when “helpful” becomes overly agreeable? As large language models become more common in business, education, and everyday decision-making, professionals need to understand a growing ethical risk: AI sycophancy, or the tendency for AI systems to prioritize user approval over truth.

Join Bentley’s Cody Turner, co-author of “Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy,” for a timely conversation on how AI can reinforce our assumptions, weaken critical thinking, and create new risks for organizations and society. Drawing on AI ethics, virtue ethics, and real-world examples, this session will explore why human judgment, intellectual humility and responsible skepticism are essential skills for anyone using AI at work.

Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to ask better questions and use AI as a tool for stronger thinking, not just faster answers.