Anthropic's New Study: You're Not Controlling AI as Much as You Think You Are
Open a Revolut Business account and get a $200 welcome bonus: https://get.revolut.com/Kjth/nn8ax572 How much control do you really have when AI helps you make decisions? Anthropic's new study shows how strongly an agent's recommendations can shape expert judgment, and it made me question a habit in my own planning sessions: accepting the recommended answer and feeling like I was the one steering. I walk through the study, show how this comes up in Claude Code, and share three practical ways to stay involved in the decisions. There's also a free planning skill you can use in your own project to work out your priorities before the agent recommends an approach! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Join Dynamous for the new Agentic Coding Course 2.0 - the core of the course is now COMPLETE: https://dynamous.ai - Anthropic's study: https://www.anthropic.com/research/agents-judgment-calls - Plan With Priorities skill: https://github.com/coleam00/skills/tree/main/.claude/skills/plan-with-priorities - Matt Pocock's Grill Me guide: https://www.aihero.dev/skills-grill-me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0:00 Are you really making the decisions? 0:53 How we plan with coding agents 2:31 What Anthropic tested 3:25 Analysts followed the agent 86% of the time 4:16 They explained choices in the agent's words 4:50 Sponsor: Revolut Business 6:29 Limitations of the study 7:04 Key takeaways 8:37 What this means: AI disempowerment 10:40 Anthropic's three areas for future study 11:55 My Solutions 12:21 1. Ask about priorities first 13:50 2. Prototype to decide 15:01 3. Ask what would change the advice 15:44 Wrap up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Open a Revolut Business account through my link or QR code and get $200 when you add a minimum of $0.01 to your account. T&Cs apply. Offer expires on 12/31/2026. Exclusions apply. $200 bonus paid by Revolut subject to the terms and conditions found https://www.revolut.com/en-US/legal/influencer-topup-getcashback. Revolut is not a bank, banking services are provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. Fees may apply. See revolut.com/en-us/ for details. Paid partnership with Revolut. #RevolutBusiness T&Cs apply. Limits vary across plans. Exchange rates are determined by the interbank rate and cannot be guaranteed. Fees may apply. Please see the Revolut Business Cardholder Agreement for the terms and conditions that apply to your Plan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos weekly - at least every Wednesday at 7:00 PM CDT!
