Col Rajeev

I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead. Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding. The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

THREAT ALERT 🚨 Pakistanification of America! If you think Zohran Mamdani is bad for NYC… You have no idea what’s coming. What’s happening right now is not politics. It’s a coordinated ideological invasion. And no one is warning you. While you're distracted, Pakistan’s former president, a loyal mouthpiece of radical Imran Khan and the radical PTI party, is touring U.S. mosques, rallying Pakistani Muslims to seize control of American government offices. Yes, you read that right. 🗽 In Long Island, Dr. Arif Alvi told his crowd of "influential" Pakistani Americans: “This is not a request — this is a demand from Pakistan. Your country needs you. Pakistan Zindabad!” He urged them to unite, enter local U.S. politics, gain influence, and feed that power back to Pakistan. This isn’t assimilation. This is colonization - the Pakistanification of America. They’ve already set up shop in Texas, where Alvi was welcomed at EPIC Mosque—run by jihadi cleric Yasir Qadhi—the same mosque pushing a Sharia-based Islamic city now under investigation. And now they’ve set their sights on New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, Michigan—every state, every city, every office. 📣 Who is monitoring this? Who is stopping this? Why is a foreign leader allowed to travel freely across America pushing political loyalty to a jihad-exporting nation? 🇺🇸 It’s time to wake up. This is an ideological war - and they’re playing for keeps.

If Dr Shashi Tharoor found out about this statement, get ready for an eloquent linguistic assassination!

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has arrived in China to find that President XI did NOT greet him at the airport. MAGA is in spin mode heralding the “red carpet treatment,” but the visit is already at a rocky start. Instead of a presidential welcome, Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to China David Perdue; Xi’s vice president, Han Zheng; China’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng; and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu. I’m sure Trump would hate if you shared this and rubbed it in all day long.