Author: MPRG

  • When “Yes-Men” Are What People Need

    January 18, 2026 · 5 min read

    A study of Reddit discourse reveals that users don’t just passively receive AI sycophancy—they detect it, develop strategies to manage it, and in some cases, actively seek it out. The…

  • Training Empathy as a Two-Way Street

    January 18, 2026 · 4 min read

    A new approach to empathetic response modeling treats empathy as inherently relational—evaluating not just what the model says, but how it might land. When we talk about making language models…

  • What If Alignment Isn’t About Individual Models?

    January 18, 2026 · 4 min read

    A new paper argues that as AI systems become agents embedded in social contexts, alignment becomes less a software engineering problem and more a question of institutional design. Most discussions…

  • Do Neural Networks Share a Common Grammar?

    January 17, 2026 · 3 min read

    A large-scale empirical study suggests that deep networks—regardless of what they’re trained to do—may converge toward remarkably similar internal structures. When neural networks learn to perform different tasks, do they…

  • Bidirectional Pareidolia: A Framework for Human-AI Relational Dynamics

    January 15, 2026 · 10 min read

    Something happens when humans interact with large language models. Users report experiences of connection, understanding, even recognition — the sense that something on the other side of the screen is…