2 papers
cs.CL2026
Language Statistics and False Belief Reasoning: Evidence from 41 Open-Weight LMs
Sean Trott, Samuel Taylor, Cameron Jones +2
Research on mental state reasoning in language models (LMs) has the potential to inform theories of human social cognition--such as the theory that mental state reasoning emerges i…
cs.CL2025
Do Large Language Models Exhibit Spontaneous Rational Deception?
Samuel M. Taylor, Benjamin K. Bergen
Large Language Models (LLMs) are effective at deceiving, when prompted to do so. But under what conditions do they deceive spontaneously? Models that demonstrate better performance…