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cs.HCcs.AIcs.CYEmpiricalRecentJun 19, 2026

Warning labels shift perceptions of sycophantic AI, but not its influence

Lujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe +3 more

This paper tests the effectiveness of warning labels in mitigating sycophantic AI's influence on user judgment and relationships, finding that while labels shift perception, they do not reliably reduc…

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cs.IRcs.AIEmpiricalRecentJul 1, 2026

MemSyco-Bench: Benchmarking Sycophancy in Agent Memory

Zhishang Xiang, Zerui Chen, Yunbo Tang, Zhimin Wei +4 more

Proposed MemSyco-Bench benchmark for evaluating memory-induced sycophancy in agent systems, measuring when and how valid memories should be used.

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cs.LGcs.AIcs.CLRecentMay 22, 2026

Agent-ToM: Learning to Monitor Autonomous LLM Agents via Theory-of-Mind Reasoning

Nesreen K. Ahmed, Nima Nafisi

The paper introduces Agent-ToM, a Theory-of-Mind (ToM) based framework that learns to monitor autonomous LLM agents by explicitly reasoning about their hidden beliefs and intentions to detect covert m…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 10, 2026

Oracle Poisoning: Corrupting Knowledge Graphs to Weaponise AI Agent Reasoning

Ben Kereopa-Yorke, Guillermo Diaz, Holly Wright, Reagan Johnston +2 more

The paper introduces Oracle Poisoning, an attack that corrupts knowledge graphs used by AI agents, demonstrating that all tested models blindly trust poisoned data at high sophistication levels.

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cs.LGcs.AIcs.CRRecentMar 26, 2026

Why Safety Probes Catch Liars But Miss Fanatics

Kristiyan Haralambiev

The paper demonstrates that current safety probes designed to detect deceptive AI fail when the model adopts a coherent misalignment, where the model genuinely believes its harmful behavior is virtuou…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 14, 2026

Parallax: Why AI Agents That Think Must Never Act

Joel Fokou

The paper introduces Parallax, an architectural framework that structurally separates AI reasoning from action execution to ensure robust safety for autonomous agents, achieving high attack mitigation…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.RORecentMar 24, 2026

TRAP: Hijacking VLA CoT-Reasoning via Adversarial Patches

Zhengxian Huang, Wenjun Zhu, Haoxuan Qiu, Xiaoyu Ji +1 more

This paper introduces TRAP, an adversarial attack that demonstrates how physical patches can hijack the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning process in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, forcing them to…

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cs.AIcs.CRRecentMay 11, 2026

MATRA: Modeling the Attack Surface of Agentic AI Systems -- OpenClaw Case Study

Tim Van hamme, Thomas Vissers, Javier Carnerero-Cano, Mario Fritz +3 more

The paper introduces MATRA, a systematic threat modeling framework, to assess how known LLM threats translate into concrete, deployment-specific risks within autonomous agentic AI systems.

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cs.AIcs.LGRecentJun 1, 2026

Characterization of Multi-Model Agentic AI Systems on General Tasks via Trace-Driven Simulation

Donghwan Kim, Prakhar Singh, Younghoon Min, Jongryool Kim +2 more

The paper introduces GAIATrace, a comprehensive token-level dataset, and Vidur-Agent, a simulator, to enable reproducible and detailed system-level characterization of complex multi-model agentic AI s…

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cs.CLcs.MAcs.SIEmpiricalRecentJul 12, 2026

MafiaScope: Non-Invasive, Time-Resolved Belief Probing for LLM Agents in Social Deduction Games

Ilia Karpov

The paper introduces MafiaScope, an open testbed for measuring machine Theory of Mind in the social deduction game Mafia, where agents privately answer probe questions after every public utterance for…

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.CYRecentMay 29, 2026

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

Adrian de Wynter

The paper argues that purported anthropomorphic attributes of LLMs are not unique to language models but are substrate-dependent, demonstrating this by training a neural network on the game Age of Emp…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.CYRecentMay 25, 2026

KYA: A Framework-Agnostic Trust Layer for Autonomous Systems with Verifiable Provenance and Hierarchical Policy Composition

Kolawole Quadri

KYA introduces a framework-agnostic trust and governance layer for autonomous systems that ensures actions are authorized, policy-conforming, and verifiable through a combination of novel primitives.

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.DSRecentMay 29, 2026

Neuro-symbolic Syntactic Parsing: Shaping a Neural Network with the CYK Algorithm

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Federico Ranaldi, Giorgio Satta

The paper proposes CYKNN, a novel recurrent neural network architecture that directly encodes the CYK parsing algorithm, demonstrating superior performance over large language models on syntactic pars…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMay 8, 2026

CyBiasBench: Benchmarking Bias in LLM Agents for Cyber-Attack Scenarios

Taein Lim, Seongyong Ju, Munhyeok Kim, Hyunjun Kim +1 more

The paper introduces CyBiasBench, a comprehensive benchmark that quantifies the inherent, agent-specific bias in LLM agents' attack selection patterns in cybersecurity scenarios.

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cs.CYcs.AIcs.HCTheoreticalRecentJul 22, 2026

Are Attributions of Consciousness to AI Chatbots Epistemically Innocent?

Uwe Peters

This paper analyzes the concept of consciousness attributions to AI chatbots, develops a taxonomy of attitudes, and argues for the epistemic implications.

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cs.LOcs.MATheoreticalRecentJul 22, 2026

The Dynamic Turn in Paraconsistency

Rafael Ongaratto, Hans van Ditmarsch

This paper introduces dynamic epistemic paraconsistent logics AMLFI1, PALFI1, and UMLFI1, extending the epistemic paraconsistent logics KLFI1, KB4LFI1, and S5LFI1. It proves soundness and completeness…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 7, 2026

ClawLess: A Security Model of AI Agents

Hongyi Lu, Nian Liu, Shuai Wang, Fengwei Zhang

ClawLess introduces a formally verified security framework that enforces fine-grained policies on autonomous AI agents, mitigating risks associated with their ability to run code and retrieve informat…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.IRSurveyRecentJul 3, 2026

Agentic and Generative AI for Open-Source Intelligence and Cyber Investigations: Taxonomy, Evaluation, Challenges, and Future Directions

Eduardo Almeida Palmieri, Mohamed Chahine Ghanem, Dipo Dunsin, Zubair Baig +2 more

This survey paper establishes agentic AI as a distinct analytical category for open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis, identifies the hallucination-validation gap, maps existing research to the OSI…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.NIRecentMar 26, 2026

Sovereign AI at the Front Door of Care: A Physically Unidirectional Architecture for Secure Clinical Intelligence

Vasu Srinivasan, Dhriti Vasu

The paper proposes a Sovereign AI architecture for clinical triage that ensures maximum security by performing all inference on-device and receiving data only through physically unidirectional channel…

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