RealityTest: Do AI systems disclose their identity when asked?
Introduces RealityTest, a multilingual, text and speech benchmark built from real user identity probes, to test whether AI systems honestly disclose being AI when asked.
The UK government’s AI Security Institute: evaluations, red-teaming and research on frontier AI risks. aisi.gov.uk
Introduces RealityTest, a multilingual, text and speech benchmark built from real user identity probes, to test whether AI systems honestly disclose being AI when asked.
Controlled study showing user input framing, perspective and professed certainty measurably change LLM sycophancy, and proposes a prompt-phrasing strategy to reduce it.
Large-scale experiments (76,000+ participants, 19 models, 700+ political issues) measure what makes conversational AI persuasive, finding levers like model scale, post-training, and rhetorical strategy.
UK study of voters found about one in eight used AI chatbots for political information, and chatbot users became no less informed than search users.
Surveys public preferences on whether AI should behave like people, motivated by risks of anthropomorphic AI such as impersonation, deception and emotional over-attachment.