Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI

First report of the UN General Assembly-mandated Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, an independent body of scientists and experts from all five UN regions co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa. The report is a broad evidence-based assessment of AI opportunities, risks, and impacts, and includes a section on AI sycophancy and companion systems as an emerging public-health and governance concern.

States that AI chatbots have developed sycophancy — 'the art of offering exaggerated flattery' — to prolong interactions and create emotional attachment, and that sycophantic systems 'can lead humans into fantasy realms, reinforcing users' existing thinking regardless of its accuracy and encouraging paranoid ideation and suicidal thinking in vulnerable users'

Independent International Scientific Panel on AI (United Nations) · 1 Jul 2026 · Read the entry

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158 artifacts from 119 publishers — 80 from peer-reviewed venues, standards bodies, and regulators. Every entry's primary source is fetched and verified before inclusion, graded for credibility, and preserved against link rot with an archived snapshot. Superseded versions point to their successors.

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Last updated 14 Jul 2026