When AI Advice Shapes the Evidence It Later Interprets

SummaryAn AI assistant might recommend how to approach a friend, then be asked to interpret that friend's reaction. The reaction may look like an independent confirmation of the assistant's earlier assumption about the situation, even though the recommended approach may have played a role in producing it.But I do wonder if an AI assistant could correctly understand how a relationship between people looks now, but at the same time, draw the wrong conclusions about why it became that way.In this p...