3 papers
cs.CL2026
A Mechanistic View of Authority Hierarchy in LLM Sycophancy
Emil Joswin, Srujananjali Medicherla, Priyanka Mary Mammen
Authority bias poses a critical safety concern in language models: models systematically prioritize social cues from authority figures over factual consistency, swaying their answe…
cs.CL2026
Who Endorsed It? Measuring Authority Bias Across Expertise Levels in Language Models
Priyanka Mary Mammen, Emil Joswin, Shankar Venkitachalam
Prior research demonstrates that performance of language models on reasoning tasks can be influenced by suggestions, hints and endorsements. However, the influence of endorsement s…
cs.CY2025
AILuminate: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons
Shaona Ghosh, Heather Frase, Adina Williams +99
The rapid advancement and deployment of AI systems have created an urgent need for standard safety-evaluation frameworks. This paper introduces AILuminate v1.0, the first comprehen…