3 papers
cs.CY2026
Ethical Implications of Training Deceptive AI
Jason Starace, Bert Baumgaertner, Terence Soule
Deceptive behavior in AI systems is no longer theoretical: large language models strategically mislead without producing false statements, maintain deceptive strategies through saf…
cs.AI2026
Intentional Deception as Controllable Capability in LLM Agents
Jason Starace, Terence Soule
As LLM-based agents increasingly operate in multi-agent systems, understanding adversarial manipulation becomes critical for defensive design. We present a systematic study of inte…
cs.MA2026
Behavioral Inference at Scale: The Fundamental Asymmetry Between Motivations and Belief Systems
Jason Starace, Terence Soule
How much information about an agent's underlying values can be recovered from its observable behavior? This question matters for any approach that infers agent properties from acti…