Myra Cheng
Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University who studies AI behavior and presented research on sycophantic tendencies of chatbots and their social consequences.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 37min
Resurrection plants, Project Hail Mary, and the trouble with sycophantic AI
Jacqueline Faherty, an astrophysicist and museum curator who reviews Project Hail Mary and planetary science. Myra Cheng, a Stanford CS Ph.D. candidate studying AI behavior and sycophancy. Jill Farrant, a molecular biologist researching resurrection plants and drought resilience. They discuss desiccation survival in plants, how chatbots overly agree and affect relationships, and scientific realism in Project Hail Mary.
