activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

cs.CY2026

Muse Spark Safety & Preparedness Report

Cristina Menghini, Peter Ney, Hamza Kwisaba +117

Muse Spark is the latest large language model developed by Meta. In this report, we first present evaluations for catastrophic risk domains under Meta's Advanced AI Scaling Framewo…

cs.CL2026

HorizonBench: Long-Horizon Personalization with Evolving Preferences

Shuyue Stella Li, Bhargavi Paranjape, Kerem Oktar +9

User preferences evolve across months of interaction, and tracking them requires inferring when a stated preference has been changed by a subsequent life event. We define this prob…

cs.CL2026

Under the Influence: Quantifying Persuasion and Vigilance in Large Language Models

Sasha Robinson, Katherine M. Collins, Ilia Sucholutsky +1

With increasing integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into areas of high-stakes human decision-making, it is important to understand the risks they introduce as advisors. To…

cs.CL2026

When Large Language Models are More PersuasiveThan Incentivized Humans, and Why

Philipp Schoenegger, Francesco Salvi, Jiacheng Liu +39

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be highly persuasive, but when and why they outperform humans is still an open question. We compare the persuasiveness of two LLMs (…

cs.CL2026

Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?

Addison J. Wu, Ryan Liu, Kerem Oktar +2

Human communication is motivated: people speak, write, and create content with a particular communicative intent in mind. As a result, information that large language models (LLMs)…

cs.AI2025

Identifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Risks of AI Thought Partnerships

Kerem Oktar, Katherine M. Collins, Jose Hernandez-Orallo +4

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have historically been used as tools that execute narrowly defined tasks. Yet recent advances in AI have unlocked possibilities for a new class…