most citedAsk don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models

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cs.AI2026

Evaluating Model Capabilities After Benchmark Saturation

Morio Hamada, Jehyeok Yeon, Matteo Migliarini +2

Rapid advances in AI capabilities are causing benchmarks to saturate. Once several models approach perfect scores, a benchmark loses its power to differentiate between them, and wi…

cs.AI2026

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

Peter Kirgis, Sayash Kapoor, Andrew Schwartz +21

Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations eithe…

cs.AI2026

Automated Transcript Analysis for Detecting Flaws in Agentic Benchmarks

Jeff Mohl, Nelson Gardner-Challis, Magda Dubois +6

Capabilities of frontier models are often assessed using agentic benchmarks. To trust these results, benchmarks must accurately measure what they claim to and be free from invalida…

cs.AI2026

Open-World Evaluations for Measuring Frontier AI Capabilities

Sayash Kapoor, Peter Kirgis, Andrew Schwartz +15

Benchmark-based evaluation remains important for tracking frontier AI progress. But it can both overstate and understate deployed capability because it privileges tasks that can be…

cs.AI2026

Log analysis is necessary for credible evaluation of AI agents

Peter Kirgis, Sayash Kapoor, Stephan Rabanser +8

Agent benchmarks typically report only final outcomes: pass or fail. This threatens evaluation credibility in three ways. First, scores may be inflated or deflated by shortcuts and…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

Seven simple steps for log analysis in AI systems

Magda Dubois, Ekin Zorer, Maia Hamin +17

AI systems produce large volumes of logs as they interact with tools and users. Analysing these logs can help understand model capabilities, propensities, and behaviours, or assess…

cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

A Multi-Turn Framework for Evaluating AI Misuse in Fraud and Cybercrime Scenarios

Kimberly T. Mai, Anna Gausen, Magda Dubois +5

AI is increasingly being used to assist fraud and cybercrime. However, it is unclear the extent to which current large language models can provide useful information for complex cr…

cs.HC2026★ 2 cited

Ask don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models

Magda Dubois, Cozmin Ududec, Christopher Summerfield +1

Sycophancy, the tendency of large language models to favour user-affirming responses over critical engagement, has been identified as an alignment failure, particularly in high-sta…

cs.AI2026

Improving Methodologies for Agentic Evaluations Across Domains: Leakage of Sensitive Information, Fraud and Cybersecurity Threats

Ee Wei Seah, Yongsen Zheng, Naga Nikshith +67

The rapid rise of autonomous AI systems and advancements in agent capabilities are introducing new risks due to reduced oversight of real-world interactions. Yet agent testing rema…

cs.HC2025

People readily follow personal advice from AI but it does not improve their well-being

Lennart Luettgau, Vanessa Cheung, Magda Dubois +8

People increasingly seek personal advice from large language models (LLMs), yet whether humans follow their advice, and its consequences for their well-being, remains unknown. In a…

cs.AI2025

Lessons from a Chimp: AI "Scheming" and the Quest for Ape Language

Christopher Summerfield, Lennart Luettgau, Magda Dubois +9

We examine recent research that asks whether current AI systems may be developing a capacity for "scheming" (covertly and strategically pursuing misaligned goals). We compare curre…

cs.LG2025

Skewed Score: A statistical framework to assess autograders

Magda Dubois, Harry Coppock, Mario Giulianelli +3

The evaluation of large language model (LLM) outputs is increasingly performed by other LLMs, a setup commonly known as "LLM-as-a-judge", or autograders. While autograders offer a…

cs.AI2025

HiBayES: A Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Framework for AI Evaluation Statistics

Lennart Luettgau, Harry Coppock, Magda Dubois +2

As Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI systems evolve, robustly estimating their capabilities from inherently stochastic outputs while systematically quantifying uncertainty…