most citedPosition is Power: System Prompts as a Mechanism of Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs)

25 citations · 28 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.HC2026

[MM/AI] Mental Models in Human-AI Interaction: Methods and Challenges in the Generative and Agentic AI Era (Workshop)

Téo Sanchez, Bhada Yun, Prerna Ravi +6

The mental model construct is widely used in HCI to refer to the knowledge structure people hold in order to reason about and interact with computing systems. Yet it is often opera…

cs.CY2026

It is not enough to give your moderation rules to ChatGPT: Policy-as-Prompt Moderation and Its Potential Impacts on Community Governance

Anna Neumann, Jasmin Wyss, Ivy Turk +1

Content moderation practices and governance paradigms are changing rapidly, as fewer human moderators are deployed as `experts' by social media companies in a centralized manner. I…

cs.CY2026

Traces of Abuse: How Generative AI Impacts Image-Based Sexual Abuse (IBSA) Investigations

Jasmin Wyss, Anna Neumann, Ivy Turk +1

The introduction of generative AI (GAI) into the workflow of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) only worsened the ease of creation and distribution, victimizing more people than ever.…

cs.CY2026

Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language

Anna Neumann, Holli Sargeant, Jatinder Singh

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly operated by natural language instructions (prompts). Across the pipeline, stakeholders designate various forms, e.g. end-…

cs.CY2026★ 3 cited

Who Controls the Conversation? User Perspectives On Generative AI (LLM) System Prompts

Anna Neumann, Yulu Pi, Jatinder Singh

System prompts - instructions that shape the behaviour of generative AI systems - strongly influence system outputs and users' experiences. They define the model's guidelines, `per…

cs.CY2026

AI Safety Evaluations Need To Consider Cascading Effects

Anna Neumann, Jatinder Singh

AI systems comprise a range of interactions across the technical and organisational components of a range of actors. These components work together to provide the systems' function…

cs.CY2025★ 25 cited

Position is Power: System Prompts as a Mechanism of Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs)

Anna Neumann, Elisabeth Kirsten, Muhammad Bilal Zafar +1

System prompts in Large Language Models (LLMs) are predefined directives that guide model behaviour, taking precedence over user inputs in text processing and generation. LLM deplo…