7 papers
Scaling, Lock-In, and Proxy Compliance: A Political Economy of Responsible AI
Florian A. D. Burnat, Brittany I. Davidson
AI accountability at scale is an institutional problem: who can observe, verify, and change deployed systems. We develop a sequential political-economy model in which an AI vendor…
Measuring Evaluation-Context Divergence in Open-Weight LLMs: A Paired-Prompt Protocol with Pilot Evidence of Alignment-Pipeline-Specific Heterogeneity
Florian A. D. Burnat, Brittany I. Davidson
Safety benchmarks are routinely treated as evidence about how a language model will behave once deployed, but this inference is fragile if behavior depends on whether a prompt look…
Gaming the Metric, Not the Harm: Certifying Safety Audits against Strategic Platform Manipulation
Florian A. D. Burnat, Brittany I. Davidson
Online-safety regulation under the UK Online Safety Act and the EU Digital Services Act increasingly treats scalar metrics as compliance evidence. Once announced, such a metric als…
Quotient Semivalues for False-Name-Resistant Data Attribution
Florian A. D. Burnat, Brittany I. Davidson
Data valuation methods allocate payments and audit training data's contribution to machine-learning pipelines; however, they often assume passive contributors. In reality, contribu…
A Benchmark for Strategic Auditee Gaming Under Continuous Compliance Monitoring
Florian A. D. Burnat, Brittany I. Davidson
Continuous post-deployment compliance audits, mandated by emerging regulations such as the EU AI Act and Digital Services Act, create a class of strategic gaming distinct from the…
Regulatory gray areas of LLM Terms
Brittany I. Davidson, Kate Muir, Florian A. D. Burnat +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into academic research pipelines; however, the Terms of Service governing their use remain under-examined. We present a com…
The Accountability Paradox: How Platform API Restrictions Undermine AI Transparency Mandates
Florian A. D. Burnat, Brittany I. Davidson
Recent application programming interface (API) restrictions on major social media platforms challenge compliance with the EU Digital Services Act [20], which mandates data access f…