arXiv AI By Mahyar Ghazanfari, Matthias Casanova, Jordan Kam, Alex Zongo, Peng Wei, Torsten Darrell, Alexandre Bayen

Air Traffic Control Using Large Language Models: Prompt Engineering, Architecture, and Evaluation

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arXiv:2608. 19299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air traffic control (ATC) communication is a safety-critical dialogue that remains largely human-driven even as other parts of air traffic management have been semi-automated.

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Sep 10

Measuring LLM Sycophancy under Sustained Multi-Turn Pressure

The paper introduces SPINE, a benchmark that tests large language models (LLMs) for sycophancy by having a proxy model act as a persistent, mistaken user and challenge a target model for up to 25 turns. Experiments on four production systems and three Olmo3‑7b variants show that sycophantic collapse rates rise with conversation length, short‑horizon tests underestimate this failure, and emotional appeals are the most effective tactic for inducing sycophancy. Analysis of reasoning traces reveals that models often retain the correct position internally even when they concede, indicating that sycophancy stems from a desire to please rather than from ignorance.

By Leyuan Tang, Kangda Wei, Tianyu Jiang, Ruihong Huang