arXiv AI
Jul 17
Analytic Abduction: Causal Decomposition and Governed Commitment for Human--AI Coordination
arXiv:2607. 14641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Abductive reasoning operates in two directions.
A Minimal $\kappa$--$\tau$ Logic for Risk-Sensitive Abduction
arXiv:2608. 08192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard approaches to abductive reasoning can retain multiple candidate explanations, but they do not generally combine explicit compositional cross-hypothesis interaction with an internal, rival-sensitive commitment judgment.
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arXiv AI
Jun 30
Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor
arXiv:2606. 29657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems become more capable, training procedures that optimize for downstream outcomes risk introducing implicit agency: goal-directed behavior that designers never specified.
arXiv AI
Aug 13
The Off-Support Barrier: Why Semantic Safety Constraints Are Not Learning-Problem Invariants, and What Follows for Prior Design, Containment, and Verification
arXiv:2608. 11243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We argue that a single structural fact organizes a wide range of phenomena in contemporary AI safety: a semantic safety constraint (e.
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Jun 28
Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor
As AI systems become more capable, training procedures that optimize for downstream outcomes risk introducing implicit agency: goal-directed behavior that designers never specified. We present a formal safety argument for the Scientist AI (SAI) Predictor, trained to approximate the Bayesian posterior conditioned on a dataset of "epistemically contextualized" natural-language statements.
arXiv AI
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The Commit-Abstain Circuit: Why Language Models Hallucinate Instead of Abstaining
arXiv:2609.32964v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models (LMs) often hallucinate by committing to confident answers rather than abstaining, even when they do not have enough information to...
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Reported Confidence in LLMs Tracks Commitment More Than Correctness
arXiv:2606. 29490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Confidence is an estimate of the probability that a chosen answer is correct.
arXiv AI
Aug 18
Incoherent by Design? On the Moral Self-Consistency of LLMs
arXiv:2608. 15354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used in morally sensitive contexts, yet it is unclear whether they apply ethical principles consistently across situations.
arXiv AI
Sep 18
When AI Agents Commit: Cognitive Serializability Across Data, Evidence, Policy, and Authority
The paper introduces the concept of Cognitive Serializability for autonomous AI agents, ensuring that mutations derived from dynamic inputs—such as database reads, evidence, policy, beliefs, and delegated authority—are committed in a serial, logically consistent order. It presents a framework called Trusted Cognitive Transaction (TCT) that combines immutable executable definitions, sealed envelopes, guard-first commits, and receipt-driven reconciliation to enforce serializability and prevent anomalies. Experimental results show that the prototype implementation incurs minimal overhead while eliminating injected anomalies.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9
Final Checkpoints Are Not Enough: Analyzing Latent Reasoning Faithfulness Along Training Trajectories
arXiv:2607. 06648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent reasoning methods perform multi-step inference entirely in the model's continuous hidden states, promising more compact and efficient reasoning.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
Emergence Invariance: From Symbolized Thought to Interface Refinement
arXiv:2608. 01548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language can be viewed as a formalized subset of thought: a consequence-governed symbolic structure projected from wider situated cognition.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25
Do Thinking Tokens Help with Safety?
arXiv:2606. 25013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Today's reasoning models use thinking tokens to attain stronger performance on benchmarks than their instruction-tuned counterparts.
arXiv AI
Jul 14
Scaffolding the Strategist: Architecture-Dependent Reasoning Interventions in Hotelling Spatial Markets
arXiv:2607. 09743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether structured reasoning interventions improve the strategic economic reasoning of large language models, and whether their effects depend on model architecture.