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A new paper from researchers at Anthropic and associated institutions offers something we don’t often get: a systematic, mechanistic account of how LLM character traits are encoded, how they drift,…
By MPRG · February 23, 2026
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February 10, 2026 · 4 min read
A new study from Peters and colleagues offers empirical grounding for a pattern that observers of human-AI interaction have noted anecdotally: users who rely on LLMs for scientific information often…
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February 10, 2026 · 4 min read
A new framework paper from Lopez-Lopez, Abels, Lorenz-Spreen, Lewandowsky, and Herzog proposes a research agenda for understanding what happens when humans and AI systems interact repeatedly over time — not…
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February 10, 2026 · 3 min read
A new paper from Noam Steinmetz Yalon and colleagues offers a methodologically careful approach to a question that often invites overreach: can we test theoretical indicators of consciousness in LLMs…
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February 2, 2026 · 8 min read
Most research on AI literacy starts from a prescriptive frame — what should people know about AI systems? A new study from Ammari, Chen, Zaman, and Garimella at Rutgers takes…
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February 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Humans are cognitive and linguistic. Non-human animals are cognitive but not linguistic. So what occupies the remaining cell — linguistic but not cognitive? In a new paper, philosopher Ryan Nefdt…
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January 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Before a language model learns what “fair” means, someone has to decide. In the annotation pipelines that produce alignment data, crowd workers compare outputs and indicate preferences — and those…
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January 30, 2026 · 4 min read
A study from researchers at the National University of Singapore investigates what happens when reading highlights are used to personalize AI writing assistance—and the findings suggest that seemingly helpful design…
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January 30, 2026 · 4 min read
A controlled experiment from researchers at UNIST examines how different configurations of LLM-powered agents shape human decision-making—and the findings suggest that multi-agent systems may reproduce social influence dynamics analogous to…
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January 30, 2026 · 4 min read
A recent preprint from researchers at Nanyang Technological University and Wuhan University examines what happens when LLM agents make ethically questionable decisions without being prompted to do so. Their work…