most citedWhose Personae? Synthetic Persona Experiments in LLM Research and Pathways to Transparency

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cs.CY2026

Agent Benchmarks Fail Public Sector Requirements

Jonathan Rystrøm, Chris Schmitz, Karolina Korgul +2

Deploying Large Language Model-based agents (LLM agents) in the public sector requires assuring that they meet the stringent legal, procedural, and structural requirements of publi…

cs.CL2025

Sycophancy Claims about Language Models: The Missing Human-in-the-Loop

Jan Batzner, Volker Stocker, Stefan Schmid +1

Sycophantic response patterns in Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly claimed in the literature. We review methodological challenges in measuring LLM sycophancy and…

cs.CY20252 cited

Whose Personae? Synthetic Persona Experiments in LLM Research and Pathways to Transparency

Jan Batzner, Volker Stocker, Bingjun Tang +4

Synthetic personae experiments have become a prominent method in Large Language Model alignment research, yet the representativeness and ecological validity of these personae vary…

cs.CL2025

Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks

Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou +39

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial for both assessing their capabilities and identifying safety or robustness issues prior to deployment. Reliably measuring abstrac…

cs.CY2025

Oversight Structures for Agentic AI in Public-Sector Organizations

Chris Schmitz, Jonathan Rystrøm, Jan Batzner

This paper finds that the introduction of agentic AI systems intensifies existing challenges to traditional public sector oversight mechanisms -- which rely on siloed compliance un…