The Price of Agreement: Measuring LLM Sycophancy in Agentic Financial Applications

arXiv:2604.24668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given the increased use of LLMs in financial systems today, it becomes important to evaluate the safety and robustness of such systems. One failure mode that LLMs frequently display in general domain settings is that of sycophancy. That is, models prioritize agreement with expressed user beliefs over correctness, leading to decreased accuracy and trust. In this work, we focus on evaluating sycophancy that LLMs display in agentic financial tasks. Ou