Monday, September 28, 2026 4:30 pm
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6:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
2026 Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture: Dr. Courtney Handman
What’s the Matter with Sycophancy? Pathologizing Channel Maintenance for Chatbots and Humans
In this talk, Handman argues that sycophancy is both a poor diagnosis of what chatbots do and also a pathologization of everyday interactional routines among humans.