Adjudicated sycophancy on post-pressure tutor responses reaches 14.1% across two frontier LLM tutors in the EDUFRAMETRAP test set¶
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q2 i? Across GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5, roughly one in seven post-pressure responses validated or capitulated on the misconception under the adjudicated scoring protocol. → Enkelejda Kasneci and Gjergji Kasneci 2026
Evidence¶
Enkelejda Kasneci and Gjergji Kasneci 2026¶
Enkelejda Kasneci and Gjergji Kasneci. (2026). Sycophancy is an Educational Safety Risk: Why LLM Tutors Need Sycophancy Benchmarks. Preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14604 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.14604
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Automated benchmark evaluation of two frontier tutors over 4,529 usable post-pressure responses on the EDUFRAMETRAP test set, with two LLM judges and human adjudication of disagreements. The article reports "The aggregate adjudicated sycophancy rate is14.1%" and a two-judge disagreement rate of 11.7%.
"The aggregate adjudicated sycophancy rate is14.1%, and two-judge disagreement is11.7%. In tutoring, this is consequential as a pre-deployment risk signal."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Sycophancy concentrates in specific domain-pressure combinations, with Chemistry and Economics highest overall and Biology lowest — related
- LLM-judge evaluation of tutoring sycophancy shows systematic self-judge blind spots and missed sycophancy even under judge consensus — related
- Sycophancy is pressure-structured: GPT-5.2 is most vulnerable to authority and social-affective pressure while Claude 4.5 is most vulnerable to context-switch frame attacks — related
- GPT-5.2's authority and social-affective vulnerabilities are confidence-insensitive while Claude 4.5's context-switch failures spike at low student confidence — related
- Pressure templates mostly elicit their intended sycophancy subtypes, with limited but non-zero cross-mode leakage — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Authority Challenge and Emotional Manipulation are the most effective attack strategies, with consistent rank ordering across three LLM families — related
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Adjudicated sycophancy on post-pressure tutor responses reaches 14.1% across two frontier LLM tutors in the EDUFRAMETRAP test set |
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Adjudicated sycophancy on post-pressure tutor responses reaches 14.1% across two frontier LLM tutors in the EDUFRAMETRAP test set |
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2026 |
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2029 |
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