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most citedAn Auditing Test To Detect Behavioral Shift in Language Models

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cs.AI2026

Audit tools of the trade: Automated Auditor Elicitation Can Be Sensitive to the Context the Auditor Is Given

Ben Slater, Ryan Lundqvist, Leo Richter +1

Does providing additional context to automated AI auditors improve their effectiveness? Using the Petri tool to audit LLM coding agents, we test the impact of providing two types o…

cs.CR2026

A False Average: Pooled CoT-Monitor Accuracy Conceals a Reasoning-Dependent Fragility

Shikhar Shiromani, Leo Richter, Noah Siegel

Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitors are reported by their aggregate accuracy on a pool of reward hacks. We show that this number is a false average. On Terminal Wrench, about 77% of ha…

cs.CR2026

Plausible Deniability Guarantees for Whistleblowers

Leo Richter, Matt J. Kusner

Whistleblowers are a key safeguard against organizational wrongdoing, but the threat of retaliation deters reporting. Existing whistleblower-protection proposals lack formal privac…

cs.AI2026

Agentic Uncertainty Reveals Agentic Overconfidence

Jean Kaddour, Srijan Patel, Gbètondji Dovonon +3

Can AI agents predict whether they will succeed at a task? We study agentic uncertainty by eliciting success probability estimates before, during, and after task execution. All res…

cs.AI2025

ContextBench: Modifying Contexts for Targeted Latent Activation

Robert Graham, Edward Stevinson, Leo Richter +3

Identifying inputs that trigger specific behaviours or latent features in language models could have a wide range of safety use cases. We investigate a class of methods capable of…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

An Auditing Test To Detect Behavioral Shift in Language Models

Leo Richter, Xuanli He, Pasquale Minervini +1

As language models (LMs) approach human-level performance, a comprehensive understanding of their behavior becomes crucial. This includes evaluating capabilities, biases, task perf…