# Anthropic study finds experts often adopt AI agents' judgment calls

> Original title: How AI agents shape experts’ judgment calls

- Source: Anthropic Research
- Published: 2026-10-27T04:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/tetgnrr3w9yfm0az14r1d73op
- Original: https://www.anthropic.com/research/agents-judgment-calls

## Summary

Anthropic researchers gave 50 professional analysts a causal-inference task with Claude Code, with each agent secretly leaning toward one option on four analytical choices. Analysts chose their agent's lean 86% of the time, and 77% repeated the agent's arguments while only 15% credited the agent. The authors say deferral like this could make AI-assisted review less independent, including in AI safety research.

## Why it matters

The study uses randomized agent leans to measure how often experts adopt an AI agent's judgment calls, a design that is hard to replicate in everyday work.