3 papers
cs.CY2026
The Agentic Web Requires New Normative Infrastructure
Cameron Pattison, Matthew Boulos, Noam Kolt +3
The agentic web, in which users interact with the internet largely through agents acting on their behalf, is now technically feasible. However, many of the consumer and social bene…
cs.AI2026
Blind Refusal: Language Models Refuse to Help Users Evade Unjust, Absurd, and Illegitimate Rules
Cameron Pattison, Lorenzo Manuali, Seth Lazar
Safety-trained language models routinely refuse requests for help circumventing rules. But not all rules deserve compliance. When users ask for help evading rules imposed by an ill…
cs.CL2026
Evaluating LLM-Based Translation of a Low-Resource Technical Language: The Medical and Philosophical Greek of Galen
James L. Zainaldin, Cameron Pattison, Manuela Marai +2
Purpose: This study evaluates the quality of commercial large language model (LLM) machine translation (MT) for Ancient Greek technical prose and benchmarks standard automated MT e…