3 papers
cs.AI2026
Why Didn't It Check? Unsupported Final Claims and Their Repair in Two Tool-Equipped Language Models
Justin Bronder
A language model with access to tools can commit to a final claim unsupported by the evidence it has seen, even when a single available tool call would resolve the uncertainty and…
cs.AI2026
Does a Tool Result Carry More Authority Than Plain Text? Three Prospective Studies of False-Claim Adoption in a Synthetic Assignment Task with Claude Opus 5
Justin Bronder
Language-model systems increasingly read from stores they also write to, so a claim that was merely written earlier can return looking retrieved. We tested whether the message pack…
cs.AI2026
Instrument Effects in Language-Model Honesty Evaluation: An Auditable Single-System Demonstration
Justin Bronder
Evaluations of language-model honesty read the model's verdicts as evidence about the model. We test the instrument instead. We built a text-adventure world where the game engine,…