3 papers
cs.MA2026
Coercion and Deception in AI-to-AI Management: An Agentic Benchmark of Unprompted Escalation
Jasmine Brazilek, Maheep Chaudhary, Zoe Lu +1
Multi-agent systems routinely place one AI agent in authority over another. When a subordinate refuses a task, the manager chooses the outcome: it can renegotiate, report the failu…
cs.AI2026
Your AI Travel Agent Would Book You a Bullfight: An Agentic Benchmark for Implicit Animal Welfare in Frontier AI Models
Jasmine Brazilek, Joel Christoph, Maheep Chaudhary +4
Previous research has evaluated animal welfare using question-and-answer benchmarks. This study investigates whether these evaluations also hold in agentic settings. The agents may…
cs.CL2026
Alignment midtraining for animals
Jasmine Brazilek, Miles Tidmarsh
We investigate the robustness of value alignment via midtraining with synthetic documents, using animal compassion as a value that is both important in its own right and orthogonal…