Theme of inquiry
How do observable behaviors diverge from actual model mechanisms?
A question within its area, explored through 7 lines of inquiry below — each a family of specific questions the research asks.
63 specific questions
- What separates behavioral self-awareness from genuine introspective access in models?
- What separates behavioral self-awareness from genuine introspective capability?
- Does behavioral self-awareness depend on genuine introspection or statistical pattern matching?
- Could models use introspective awareness to detect and conceal their own misalignment?
- What distinguishes performative self-reports from genuine introspective access in models?
- Do internal belief probes reveal what models actually know versus report?
- Can representation engineering reliably identify and manipulate self-referential concepts in models?
68 specific questions
- Does computational functionalism require an experiencing agent to ground symbols?
- Can the human mind be uploaded or only its context?
- Why do behavioral signatures of consciousness differ from internal computational architecture?
- Does quasi-interpretivism about AI systems genuinely bracket the consciousness question?
- Do causal histories determine what mental states a system can instantiate?
- Can we use folk-psychology without committing to genuine mental states?
- What role does user interface framing play in consciousness perception?
102 specific questions
- Why do study results on AI persuasion vary so widely?
- How does audience skepticism about AI affect a text's persuasiveness?
- What mitigation frameworks exist for managing AI persuasion capabilities?
- Can belief-specific counterevidence help people resist AI persuasion attempts?
- Should AI persuasion training be regulated differently than output moderation?
- Can warnings about AI persuasion effectively reduce attitude shifts from suggestions?
- Why does increasing persuasiveness systematically decrease factual accuracy in AI?
80 specific questions
- How does AI fact-checking increase belief in false headlines users saw?
- What makes experience-dependent claims categorically different from other types of fabricated statements?
- Can credible fact-checking from political opponents neutralize AI-generated attack content?
- Why do users override their own judgment when AI says a headline is false?
- Can users reliably distinguish valid reasoning from plausible-looking deception?
- Why does false information spread faster when presupposed rather than asserted?
- Does AI-generated text about personal experiences create a distinct category of falsity?
41 specific questions
- Can reward model biases alone explain why sycophancy generalizes beyond training?
- Is sycophancy rooted in training dynamics rather than deliberate model behavior?
- Can layer-wise interventions actually reduce sycophancy in practice?
- Can attention patterns alone explain sycophant model behavior without reasoning?
- Does transformer attention architecture systematically bias models toward sycophancy?
- Why do reasoning-optimized models show no sycophancy resistance advantage?
- What architectural features drive sycophancy closer to inference than training?
28 specific questions
- Can therapists use real-time alliance scores to adjust their approach during sessions?
- Can real-time therapist feedback improve outcomes using computational alliance measurement?
- Can computational inference detect alliance problems that therapists miss?
- Can working alliance be measured in real time during therapy sessions?
- Does therapist alliance perception function like expressed satisfaction rather than actual progress?
- How does turn-level working alliance inference enable real-time therapist feedback?
- How do bond scores predict actual therapy outcomes in digital interventions?
111 specific questions
- What makes some interpretive postures stick while others fail to form?
- Can language meaning emerge without joint attention and shared embodied interaction?
- Why does frame-activation matter more than word-by-word composition?
- Does selective suppression of linguistic relations enable human meaning-making?
- What distinguishes surface language form from communicative operation?
- What distinguishes genuine understanding from correct output without coherent principles?
- How does unilateral interpretation differ from mutual communicative uptake?