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AI Persuasion as a Threat to Human Control

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16 Sept
AI Persuasion as a Threat to Human Control
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11 Jul
Persuasion Attacks Can Decrease Effectiveness of CoT Monitoring

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4 May
Ambient Persuasion in a Deployed AI Agent: Unauthorized Escalation Following Routine Non-Adversarial Content Exposure

arXiv:2605.00055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report a safety incident in a deployed multi-agent research system in which a primary AI agent installed 107 unauthorized

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14 May
Sustaining AI safety: Control-theoretic external impossibility, intrinsic necessity, and structural requirements

arXiv:2605.12963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems become increasingly capable, safety strategies must be evaluated not only by how much they reduce present risk, but

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27 Apr
Spontaneous Persuasion: An Audit of Model Persuasiveness in Everyday Conversations

arXiv:2604.22109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) possess strong persuasive capabilities that outperform humans in head-to-head comparisons. Users

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17 Sept
Collective Loss of Control in LLM Agent Systems: An Epidemic Account of Mutation, Contagion, and Recovery

arXiv:2609.18460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How does a multi-agent system evolve from a local deviation into collective loss of control? We propose an epidemic explanation

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12 Aug
Persuasive and Compliant Tendencies Predict Group Decision-Making in Humans and Language Models

arXiv:2608.08199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in group decision-making with other LLMs and humans. Yet it remains unclear

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8 Apr
From Governance Norms to Enforceable Controls: A Layered Translation Method for Runtime Guardrails in Agentic AI

arXiv:2604.05229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems plan, use tools, maintain state, and produce multi-step trajectories with external effects. Those properties

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20 Mar
From Accuracy to Readiness: Metrics and Benchmarks for Human-AI Decision-Making

arXiv:2603.18895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are deployed as collaborators in human decision-making. Yet, evaluation practices focus

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