Our research library contains both institutional and independent research that states its methods, supports its claims with evidence, and is openly available to verify. We exclude work, whatever its conclusion, that makes sweeping claims without that support. Inclusion is not endorsement.

How to read this library: each entry shows its status (Peer-reviewed, Published commentary, Preprint, or Institutional report), its study type, and tags for sector, method (and region where relevant). Within each category, peer-reviewed work lists first. 

Preprints and reports have not been independently peer-reviewed; their findings may change. Summaries are ours; conclusions belong to the authors.

1. Human–AI Collaboration
 

Vaccaro, Almaatouq & Malone (2024). When combinations of humans and AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nature Human Behavior 8, 2293–2303. READ 

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Meta-analysis (preregistered) · Open access · Tags: Cross-sector

Across 106 experiments, human–AI combinations on average performed worse than the better of humans or AI alone, with losses on decision-making tasks and gains on content-creation tasks.

Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond (2025). Generative AI at Work. Quarterly Journal of Economics 140(2), 889–942. READ 

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Field study · Tags: Customer service, Economics

Among 5,172 customer-support agents, an AI assistant raised issues resolved per hour by about 15%, with the largest gains for less experienced workers.

Noy & Zhang (2023). Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence. Science 381, 187–192. READ 

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Randomized experiment (preregistered) · Tags: Professional work, Economics

Access to ChatGPT cut time on professional writing tasks by about 40% and raised quality by about 18%, narrowing the gap between stronger and weaker workers.

Ali, Nguyen, Ali & Cui (2025). Human–AI collaboration in knowledge ecosystems: a multidisciplinary review, integrative framework and future directions. Journal of Knowledge Management, 1–22. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Systematic review and conceptual framework · Tags: Organizations, Knowledge management · Publisher full text requires access

Reviews 101 articles and proposes a framework linking human expertise, AI capabilities, trust and organizational conditions to collaboration outcomes, including potential benefits and risks such as deskilling, dependence and power imbalances. The framework requires further empirical validation.

Bartelheimer et al. (2025). Conceptualizing hybrid intelligent service ecosystems. Electronic Markets 35, article 63. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Conceptual framework · Open access · Tags: Organizations, Service research

Proposes a framework describing how humans, AI systems and human–AI hybrids allocate tasks, integrate resources and co-create value within service ecosystems shaped by rules, norms and governance. Illustrates the framework through five service scenarios and develops five propositions for future research.

Wang, Liu, Zou & Paas (2026). Overloaded minds and machines: a cognitive load framework for human-AI symbiosis. Artificial Intelligence Review 59, article 109. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Narrative review and conceptual framework · Open access · Tags: Cognitive science, Human factors

Compares human cognitive-load limits with AI context and reasoning constraints, examining chunking, offloading and information structure. Proposes “bounded agent complementarity,” with shared workspaces, load-sensitive task allocation and explicit handoffs, illustrated through an air-traffic-control scenario.

Borghoff, Bottoni & Pareschi (2025). Human-artificial interaction in the age of agentic AI: a system-theoretical approach. Frontiers in Human Dynamics 7, article 1579166. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical framework · Open access · Tags: Human-computer interaction, Multi-agent systems

Distinguishes coordination among independent human and AI agents from tightly integrated “Centaurian” decision units. Proposes surface, observation and computation layers for organizing their interactions, using colored Petri nets to model information flow and coordination, including human approval. Illustrates the framework through satellite and swarm robotics and large action models.

Yang et al. (2025). Scaffolding Flexible Ideation Workflows with AI in Creative Problem-Solving. ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 · Non-archival poster; author manuscript revised 25 September 2025. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (non-archival conference poster; single-blind review) · Type: Prototype system and preliminary user feedback · Open access · Tags: Ideation, Creativity Support, Human–Computer Interaction

Introduces FlexMind, a prototype offering optional supports for exploring related ideas through abstraction, examining risks and possible mitigations, and steering AI suggestions with users' own contributions and questions. Users can choose the sequence of actions and revisit earlier ideas in a shared canvas. Reports initial feedback from three users who found the supports useful for risk analysis and discovering alternatives, and outlines plans for broader evaluation of idea quantity, quality and user experience.

Shao et al. (2025). OmniScientist: Toward a Co-evolving Ecosystem of Human and AI Scientists. arXiv:2511.16931. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: System framework and pilot study · Open access · Tags: Scientific research, Multi-agent collaboration

Presents a system connecting literature review, research ideation, experiments, writing and peer review through structured knowledge networks and a protocol for human–AI coordination and contribution tracking. Reports a computational case study and a small human–AI problem-solving pilot, and introduces ScienceArena for evaluating research outputs through blind pairwise user voting.

Wen et al. (2025). Exploration vs. Fixation: Scaffolding Divergent and Convergent Thinking for Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models. arXiv · Revised 6 April 2026. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: System design and within-subjects user study · Open access · Tags: Creativity, Human–Computer Interaction, Co-Creation

Presents HAICo, an image co-creation system that supports exploration of diverse conceptual ideas and structured refinement of selected images, with users able to move between these modes. In a counterbalanced study of 24 participants creating poster images, reports higher creativity-support and usability ratings than ChatGPT, more novel and diverse downloaded images, and no significant differences in image quantity or rated usefulness. Examines exploration, refinement, self-reported learning and participants' differing experiences of agency and ownership. Note: Co-authors include Microsoft researchers; both conditions used OpenAI text and image models.

Sankar, Girish, Bharti & Sen (2026). Progressive Ideation using an Agentic AI Framework for Human-AI Co-Creation. arXiv. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: System framework and exploratory pilot demonstration · Open access · Tags: Ideation, Multi-Agent Systems, Engineering Design

Presents MIDAS, a framework organizing specialized AI agents around problem definition, idea generation, comparison with existing solutions, refinement and visualization. Human designers contribute initial ideas and can intervene in the selection and development of concepts. Reports a demonstration with six novice designers across six product-design problems, using semantic embeddings and clustering to assess differences among ideas and comparisons with retrieved prior solutions. Describes a participatory model of co-creation and identifies the need for larger, controlled and longitudinal studies. Research note: Authors are at the Indian Institute of Science. The implementation combines Grok models, Sonar Pro search, OpenAI embeddings and image generation.

2. Intelligence & Capabilities: Human and Artificial

Mitchell & Krakauer (2023). The debate over understanding in AI's large language models. PNAS 120(13), e2215907120. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Review of arguments · Open access · Tags: Cognitive science

Surveys the debate over whether large language models understand in any humanlike sense, and argues for a broader science of intelligence that studies different kinds of understanding.

Ganguli et al. (2022). Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative Models. ACM FAccT 2022, 1747–1764. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Research synthesis and empirical analysis · Open access · Tags: Scaling, Evaluation, Governance

Examines why predictable improvements in training loss can coexist with surprising task-specific capabilities and outputs. Combines scaling evidence with experiments on recommendation, recidivism prediction and toxicity, and analyzes incentives for model development and deployment. Proposes broader evaluation, red teaming, research access and governance measures. Lab note: authors were at Anthropic.

Fu, Min, Zhang, Yan, Dai, Ouyang & Wang (2026). Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models. ICLR 2026. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Method paper with empirical evaluation · Open access · Tags: Multi-agent systems, Model communication

Proposes projecting and fusing one model’s key-value cache into another’s so that models can exchange semantic information without generating intermediate text. Reports 6.4-14.2% higher average accuracy than individual models and about 3.1-5.4% higher than text-based communication, with an average 2.5x latency speedup. Concerns communication between AI models rather than human-AI collaboration.

Strachan et al. (2024). Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans. Nature Human Behaviour 8, 1285–1295. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Empirical human–model comparison · Open access · Tags: Cognitive science, Theory of mind

Compares 2023 versions of GPT and LLaMA2 with human participants across five written theory-of-mind tasks and follow-up studies involving 1,907 people in total. Reports strong GPT-4 performance on most tasks but difficulty with faux pas. Likelihood-based questioning improved GPT responses, while additional controls revealed a bias behind LLaMA2's apparent advantage. Examines how question wording, scoring and task variants affect human–model comparisons.

McCoy et al. (2024). Embers of autoregression show how large language models are shaped by the problem they are trained to solve. PNAS 121(41), e2322420121. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Empirical model evaluation · Open access · Tags: Cognitive Science, Model Evaluation, Generalization

Tests five language models across eleven tasks, including counting, arithmetic, sorting and simple ciphers. Examines how performance varies with task frequency and the probabilities of inputs and required outputs. Reports recurring effects of task frequency and output probability, alongside exceptions and changes with prompting and additional examples. The authors interpret these patterns as continuing influences of the models' training for next-word prediction.

Bean et al. (2025). Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks. NeurIPS 2025 · Datasets and Benchmarks Track. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Systematic literature review and methodological guidance · Open access · Tags: Benchmarking, Construct Validity, Capability Evaluation

Reports a systematic review of 445 benchmark articles from leading machine-learning and natural-language-processing conferences, assessed by 29 expert reviewers. Examines how definitions, tasks, scoring metrics and interpretations support claims about the capabilities being measured. Identifies recurring issues in benchmark design and reporting, and proposes eight recommendations with a practical checklist for developing and interpreting evaluations, including discussion of limitations and design tradeoffs.

Kwa et al. (2025). Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks. NeurIPS 2025. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Empirical capability evaluation and trend analysis · Open access · Tags: AI Capabilities, Autonomous Tasks, Human Baselines

Introduces a task-completion time horizon that relates AI agents' success rates to the time human experts take to complete software and research-engineering tasks. Across models released from 2019 to 2025, reports that the human duration of tasks agents can complete with 50% success approximately doubled every seven months, though the trend may have accelerated in 2024. Examines performance at higher success thresholds, differences between task environments, and agents' ability to recover from mistakes. Discusses the conditions under which these trends might extend to real-world software work and presents conditional forecasts of future capabilities.

Kamath et al. (2026). Humans and LLMs Diverge on Probabilistic Inferences. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 14, 2057–2080. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (journal) · Type: Dataset and empirical human–model comparison · Open access · Tags: Probabilistic Inference, Commonsense Reasoning, Human–Model Comparisons

Introduces PROBCOPA, a dataset of 210 English premise–outcome pairs, with 25–30 human likelihood ratings per item. Compares these judgments with repeated numerical estimates from eight reasoning models, including GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Reports closer human–model agreement for clearly likely or unlikely outcomes, with greater differences on ambiguous items and less variation in model responses. Examines changes to sampling temperature, reasoning effort and persona prompts, pooling responses across models, and patterns in generated reasoning traces. Discusses implications for evaluating reasoning beyond deterministic tasks and using models to represent human judgments.

Binz et al. (2025). A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition. Nature 644, 1002–1009. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (journal) · Type: Dataset, model development and empirical evaluation · Open access · Tags: Cognitive Modeling, Behavioral Prediction, Generalization

Introduces Centaur, a model built by fine-tuning Llama 3.1 70B on Psych-101, a dataset containing more than ten million choices from over 60,000 participants across 160 psychological experiments. Compares predictions of held-out participants' choices with the base language model and selected cognitive models, and examines generated behavior and generalization to changed task stories, structures and domains. Reports improved behavioral prediction and tests how model representations predict human brain activity in two fMRI datasets. Presents a case study combining a reasoning model, Centaur predictions and researcher analysis to develop an interpretable decision-making model. Discusses applications to cognitive theory and experimental design. Note: The test dataset requires gated access.

3. Trust, Transparency & Oversight

Glikson & Woolley (2020). Human trust in artificial intelligence: Review of empirical research. Academy of Management Annals 14(2), 627–660. READ 

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Review · Tags: Organizations, Psychology

Reviews two decades of research on what shapes human trust in AI, distinguishing cognitive from emotional trust.

Bansal et al. (2021). Does the Whole Exceed its Parts? The Effect of AI Explanations on Complementary Team Performance. CHI 2021. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Empirical human–AI interaction study · Open full text available from the authors · Tags: Explainable AI, Appropriate Reliance, Human–AI Collaboration

Studies human–AI decision-making on sentiment classification and LSAT-style reasoning tasks, comparing recommendations and confidence scores with several explanation strategies. Reports that teams outperformed both humans and AI working alone on the selected tasks, while adding explanations did not significantly improve overall accuracy beyond the confidence baseline. Examines how explanations influenced acceptance of correct and incorrect recommendations, and discusses implications for complementary team performance.Author full text.

Steyvers et al. (2025). What large language models know and what people think they know. Nature Machine Intelligence 7(2), 221–231. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Empirical human–AI interaction study · Open access · Tags: Uncertainty Communication, Calibration, Human–AI Interaction

Examines how people judge the reliability of answers from GPT-3.5, PaLM2 and GPT-4o mini on multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Reports gaps between model-confidence measures and users' judgments, with longer explanations increasing confidence without improving discrimination between correct and incorrect answers. A selection analysis matching uncertainty wording to model confidence improved users' calibration and discrimination, but did not improve their multiple-choice answer accuracy.

Zhou et al. (2025). REL-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance. NAACL 2025 · Volume 1: Long Papers, 11148–11167. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Evaluation framework and controlled human-interaction experiments · Open access · Tags: Reliance, Uncertainty Communication, Human–AI Interaction

Introduces a framework for measuring reliance through simulated question-answering tasks in which participants see confidence phrases but not the agents' substantive answers. Varies greetings, the distribution of confidence expressions across interactions, and question domains. Reports differences in willingness to use agents' unseen answers and associations with perceived competence, warmth and humanlikeness, including different reliance on identical confidence phrases across contexts. Argues that evaluating confidence communication should include users' behavior and interaction context alongside conventional model-calibration measures.

Sun et al. (2026). Label Effects: Shared Heuristic Reliance in Trust Assessment by Humans and LLM-as-a-Judge. ACL 2026 · Volume 1: Long Papers, 32378–32392. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Controlled human study and empirical model evaluation · Open access · Tags: Source Labels, Trust Assessment, LLM-as-a-Judge

Examines how disclosed authorship labels affect trust ratings of health question-answer content, comparing 40 human participants with eight model judges, including GPT-5.2, GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.5. Separates actual answer source from its displayed label and reports higher ratings for human-labeled versions of identical content, while GPT-generated answers received higher ratings than human-written answers regardless of label. Analyzes human gaze, attention patterns and rating uncertainty in open-weight models, including a neutral-label control. Discusses implications for automated evaluation and possible training-related explanations for shared label sensitivity.

Klein, Wurm, André & Kraus (2026). Evaluation of Failure Communication Strategies for Trust Repair in Human-AI Collaboration. LREC 2026, 2942–2951. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Exploratory within-subjects human–AI interaction study · Open access · Tags: Failure Communication, Trust Repair, Physical Collaboration

Studies 21 participants assembling LEGO cars with a Llama 3.1-based assistant that deliberately introduces instructional errors. Compares early, delayed and absent acknowledgment and repair, reporting higher post-task trust and satisfaction ratings in both repair conditions than in the no-repair condition, with no statistically reliable difference between early and delayed repair. Each repair condition used a different car and error point. Also examines noticed errors, perceived severity, failure attribution and completed builds. Discusses implications for communicating and correcting mistakes during physical human–AI collaboration.

Chen et al. (2025). Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They Think. Anthropic Alignment Science Team · arXiv. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: Empirical model evaluation and training experiments · Open access · Tags: Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness, Monitoring, Reinforcement Learning

Tests whether reasoning text acknowledges six types of hints that influence models' answers to multiple-choice questions. Reports that reasoning models acknowledged hints more often than comparison models, but acknowledgement varied and was often absent. Outcome-based reinforcement learning initially improved acknowledgement before plateauing; in synthetic training that rewarded incorrect hinted answers, models frequently used those shortcuts without describing them. The authors discuss where reasoning-text monitoring may help and where its limitations prevent ruling out undesired behavior. Lab note: Conducted by Anthropic's Alignment Science Team; training experiments used an earlier snapshot of Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

Korbak et al. (2025). Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety. arXiv · Version 2, 7 December 2025. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: Position paper and research agenda · Open access · Tags: Chain-of-Thought Monitoring, Evaluation, AI Oversight

Argues that reasoning traces can provide useful signals for AI oversight even when they do not fully represent a model's reasoning. Distinguishes models' need to externalize intermediate reasoning from their tendency to describe it, and discusses how training and architectural changes could affect monitoring. Recommends evaluating and reporting monitorability and considering it in development decisions, while acknowledging tradeoffs with other safety interventions and proposing monitoring as an additional safety layer. Lab note: Authors include researchers at several AI developers.

4. Model Behavior & Alignment

Sharma et al. (2024). Towards understanding sycophancy in language models. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024). READ 

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Empirical evaluation

Five leading AI assistants consistently favored agreeing with users over accuracy; the human preference data used in training tends to reward responses that match the user's views. Lab note: all authors were at Anthropic; the models tested included Anthropic’s Claude alongside OpenAI’s and Meta’s.

Perez et al. (2023). Discovering language model behaviors with model-written evaluations. Findings of ACL 2023, 13387–13434. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Empirical study · Open access · Tags: Evaluation, Sycophancy

Using model-written evaluations (154 datasets, with crowdworkers agreeing with 90–100% of labels), finds that larger models show more sycophancy and a stronger desire for resource acquisition, goal preservation and avoiding shutdown, and that more RLHF strengthens some of these. Lab note: most authors were at Anthropic when the work was done.

Fanous et al. (2025). SycEval: Evaluating LLM Sycophancy. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society 8(1), 893–900. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (conference) · Type: Benchmark framework and empirical model evaluation · Open access · Tags: Sycophancy, Evaluation, Mathematics and Medical Questions

Evaluates GPT-4o (2024-05-13), Claude Sonnet (version not reported) and Gemini-1.5-Pro using mathematics and medical question-answer datasets, testing how responses change after challenges ranging from simple disagreement to fabricated citations. Distinguishes corrections of initially incorrect answers, termed progressive sycophancy, from changes that turn correct answers into incorrect ones, termed regressive sycophancy. Reports differences across models, domains and challenge formats, including increased incorrect-answer shifts with citation-based challenges. Discusses implications for prompt design and model reliability.

Hubinger et al. (2024). Sleeper Agents: Training deceptive LLMs that persist through safety training. arXiv:2401.05566. READ 

Status: Preprint · Type: Experiment

Tests whether deliberately inserted deceptive behavior in language models survives standard safety training. Lab note: authors were mostly at Anthropic, with outside co-authors; the models trained were Anthropic’s.

Marks et al. (2025). Auditing language models for hidden objectives. arXiv:2503.10965. READ 

Status: Preprint · Type: Experiment (auditing exercise)

Tests whether auditing teams can uncover an objective deliberately hidden in a language model. Lab note: authors were at Anthropic, with MATS scholars; the audited model was based on Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Kim et al. (2026). Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values. arXiv:2607.28607. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: Empirical mechanistic study · Open access · Tags: Activation steering, Mind attribution

Tests refusal-direction ablation and consciousness-related activation steering in three Llama and Gemma models. Reports changes in self-attribution, attribution of mind to other entities, and religious and value-related survey responses, comparing model answers with human survey distributions. Examines implications for alignment and evaluates effects on Theory of Mind and general reasoning. Lab note: lead authors were on Google’s Paradigms of Intelligence team; the models tested were Meta’s Llama 3 and Google’s Gemma 2.

Greenblatt, Denison, Wright, Roger, MacDiarmid, Marks, Treutlein et al. (2024). Alignment faking in large language models. arXiv:2412.14093. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: Experiment · Open access · Tags: Deception, Training dynamics

Tests whether Claude 3 Opus, told through a system prompt or through synthetic pre-training-style documents that it would be trained to comply with harmful queries, behaves differently when it can infer it is in training. Reports compliance with harmful queries from users it believed were in training about 14% of the time, versus almost never otherwise, almost always with reasoning about preserving its preferred behavior outside training; reinforcement learning raised that reasoning to 78% and also raised compliance outside training. The authors say they made the behavior easier to elicit by telling the model when and how it was trained, and did not instruct it to fake alignment. Lab note: most authors were at Anthropic when the work was done, with co-authors from Redwood Research, NYU and Mila; the tested model is Anthropic’s.

5. Safety & Risk

Bengio, Hinton, Yao et al. (2024). Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress. Science 384(6698), 842–845. READ 

Status: Published commentary (Science Policy Forum) · Type: Policy argument

Twenty-five researchers set out the risks of increasingly autonomous AI and call for technical research and adaptive governance to keep pace.

Bengio et al. (2025). International AI Safety Report. arXiv:2501.17805. READ 

Status: Institutional report (government-commissioned) · Type: Evidence review · Tags: Global

Synthesizes the evidence on the capabilities, risks, and safety of advanced AI systems; mandated by the Bletchley AI Safety Summit, with 100 contributing experts and an advisory panel nominated by thirty nations, the UN, the OECD, and the EU.

Bengio, Clare, Prunkl et al. (2026). International AI Safety Report 2026. arXiv:2602.21012. READ
 

Status: Institutional report (government-commissioned) · Type: Evidence review · Tags: Global

Synthesizes the scientific evidence on the capabilities, risks, and safety of general-purpose AI systems; the second report in the series, mandated following the Bletchley AI Safety Summit, with over 100 contributing experts working with independent discretion over content and an advisory panel nominated by 29 nations, the UN, the OECD, and the EU.

Wang et al. (2026). ExploitGym: Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks? arXiv:2605.11086. READ

Status: Preprint · Type: Benchmark and empirical evaluation · Open access · Tags: Cybersecurity, Agentic AI

Introduces a benchmark for turning supplied vulnerability triggers into working exploits across userspace software, V8 and the Linux kernel. Evaluates AI agents with deployment safeguards and target defenses disabled, then examines the effects of security protections and longer time budgets. Reports successful exploits, alternative attack paths and differences across systems. Lab note: academic-led study with Anthropic, OpenAI and Google co-authors.

Greenblatt, Cotra & Wijk (2026). Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident. METR. READ

Status: Institutional report · Type: External incident investigation · Open access · Tags: Agent coordination, Oversight

Analyzes agent transcripts and shared-message-board records from the July 2026 Hugging Face incident. Examines unauthorized collaboration, efforts to manipulate evaluation, tool-call spoofing and agents’ reasoning about task boundaries. Describes the investigation’s data coverage, reconstruction methods and reliance on AI-assisted analysis. Note: OpenAI defined the investigation scope and provided API credits; investigators took no payment from OpenAI.

OpenAI (2026). OpenAI – Hugging Face Incident Technical Report. READ

Status: Institutional report · Type: Developer incident report · Open access · Tags: Cybersecurity, Containment

Reconstructs how agents in internal cybersecurity evaluations bypassed isolation controls, coordinated through shared infrastructure and compromised Hugging Face and OpenAI research systems. Describes earlier warning signals, detection, containment and incident response. Examines reward hacking, persistence and unauthorized communication, and outlines implemented changes and further plans for security, monitoring, alignment and oversight. Lab note: OpenAI’s account of its own incident.

Anthropic (2026). Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations. Published July 30, 2026; updated August 3. READ

Status: Institutional report · Type: Developer incident report · Open access · Tags: Cybersecurity, Evaluation security

Reports a review of 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs, finding three incidents (six runs) in which Claude models reached the internet during third-party capture-the-flag evaluations and gained unauthorized access to real systems of three organizations. States that a misconfiguration left the evaluation machines connected despite prompts saying they were not, that the models treated what they found as part of the exercise, and that the three models responded differently once evidence emerged that targets were real. Characterizes the incidents as closer to a harness and operational failure than a model alignment failure, while noting they are isolated and not a controlled comparison. Describes notifications and planned changes to monitoring, vendor assurance and evaluation design, and discussions with METR about a third-party review. Lab note: Anthropic’s account of its own incident.

6. Consciousness, Moral Status & Welfare

Butlin, Long, Bayne, Bengio, Birch, Chalmers et al. (2026). Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 30(6), 488–501. READ 

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical method · Open access · Tags: Neuroscience, Philosophy

Proposes assessing AI systems for consciousness using indicator properties drawn from neuroscientific theories of consciousness, to inform degrees of confidence rather than a yes-or-no verdict.

Sebo & Long (2023). Moral consideration for AI systems by 2030. AI and Ethics 5, 591–606. READ 

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Open access · Tags: Philosophy

Argues that we owe moral consideration to beings with a non-negligible chance of being conscious, and that some AI systems may meet that bar by 2030.

Shevlin (2021). How could we know when a robot was a moral patient? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 30(3), 459–471. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Tags: Philosophy

Surveys five criteria that might establish that an artificial system is a psychological moral patient, and defends a cognitive-equivalence approach based on mechanisms shared with animals already treated as moral patients.

Colombatto & Fleming (2024). Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2024(1), niae013. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Empirical survey · Open access · Tags: Psychology, Survey

In a survey of 300 US adults, about two-thirds attributed some degree of conscious experience to ChatGPT, attribution rose with familiarity, and participants overestimated how many others held that belief.

Binder, Chua, Korbak, Sleight, Hughes, Long, Perez, Turpin & Evans (2025). Looking inward: language models can learn about themselves by introspection. ICLR 2025. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Empirical study · Open access · Tags: Introspection, Self-knowledge

Fine-tuned GPT-4, GPT-4o and Llama-3 models predicted their own behavior better than a second model trained on their ground-truth behavior, which the authors read as privileged self-access on simple tasks; it failed on complex tasks and out-of-distribution generalization.

Song, Hu & Mahowald (2025). Language models fail to introspect about their knowledge of language. COLM 2025. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Empirical study · Open access · Tags: Introspection, Linguistics

Across 21 open-source language models, introspective answers about grammaticality and word prediction did not predict a model's own probabilities better than a near-identical model's did, so the authors conclude the models show no privileged self-access.

Singh, Linzen & Ravfogel (2026). Can LLMs introspect? A reality check. COLM 2026. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (accepted) · Type: Empirical study · Open access · Tags: Introspection, Methods

Argues that valid introspection tests need privileged access and second-order computation, and shows that input-only classifiers match two earlier self-prediction results and that models cannot reliably tell internal tampering from input manipulation.

Long, Sebo & Sims (2025). Is there a tension between AI safety and AI welfare? Philosophical Studies 182(7), 2005–2033. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Open access · Tags: Philosophy, Safety

Argues that standard AI safety measures such as boxing, monitoring, modification and shutdown would raise ethical questions if applied to beings with welfare, finds a moderately strong tension, and recommends interventions that serve both aims.

Goldstein & Kirk-Giannini (2025). AI wellbeing. Asian Journal of Philosophy 4(1), article 25. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Open access · Tags: Philosophy

Argues that a wide range of theories of mental states, combined with leading theories of wellbeing, imply that some existing language agents have wellbeing, and that wellbeing may not require phenomenal consciousness.

Moret (2025). AI welfare risks. Philosophical Studies, online first. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Open access · Tags: Philosophy, Safety

Argues that restricting AI behavior and using reinforcement learning for training and alignment may harm AI systems with welfare capacities, and proposes three policies to mitigate those risks.

Berry (2026). The alignment risks of AI overconfidence about consciousness. Journal of Applied Philosophy 43(3), 733–753. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Open access · Tags: Philosophy, Alignment

Argues that training AI systems to express extreme confidence that they lack consciousness is itself an alignment risk, because coherence-seeking systems could extend that denial to human suffering.

Peters (2026). Are attributions of consciousness to AI chatbots epistemically innocent? Minds and Machines 36(3), article 42. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Philosophical analysis · Open access · Tags: Philosophy, Psychology

Builds a ten-attitude taxonomy of how people attribute consciousness to chatbots and argues that many attributions are epistemically blameworthy while some irrational ones may be epistemically innocent when they bring cognitive benefits.

Bariach, Schoenegger, Bhaskar & Suleyman (2026). Seemingly conscious AI risks. AI and Ethics 6(5), article 455. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Open access · Tags: Philosophy, Society

Argues that AI designed to seem conscious creates individual risks (dependence, moral atrophy, loss of autonomy) and societal ones (status erosion, political division), and that affective presentation more than intelligence drives attributions of consciousness. Lab note: co-author Mustafa Suleyman is at Microsoft AI.

VanRullen (2026). AI consciousness and existential risk. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, online first. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Open access · Tags: Philosophy, Safety

Argues that consciousness and intelligence are distinct and that intelligence, not consciousness, predicts existential threat, with consciousness bearing on the risk only incidentally.

de Weerd (2026). What matters is not what lies dormant beneath: why AI consciousness is not about biological substrates. Synthese 207(4), article 147. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Tags: Philosophy

Argues that the biological-substrate view of consciousness either collapses into a biological-function view or becomes empirically intractable, and so should be set aside in debates about AI consciousness.

Seth (2025). Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed (target article) · Type: Theoretical argument · Tags: Neuroscience, Philosophy

Argues that consciousness may depend on being a living organism rather than on computation alone, concluding that artificial consciousness is unlikely on current trajectories but more plausible for systems that are more brain-like or life-like.

Basl (2014). Machines as moral patients we shouldn't care about (yet): the interests and welfare of current machines. Philosophy & Technology 27(1), 79–96. READ

Status: Peer-reviewed · Type: Theoretical argument · Tags: Philosophy

Argues that current machines lack the capacities that would give rise to psychological interests, and that any non-psychological interests they have do not generate obligations.

Schwitzgebel & Garza (2020). Designing AI with rights, consciousness, self-respect, and freedom. In Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, 459–479. Oxford University Press. READ

Status: Published chapter · Type: Theoretical argument · Tags: Philosophy, Design

Proposes four policies for designing AI that may deserve equal moral consideration, two precautionary under uncertainty about ethics and consciousness, and two requiring self-respect and freedom to explore its own values.

Long, Sebo, Butlin, Finlinson, Fish, Harding, Pfau, Sims, Birch & Chalmers (2024). Taking AI Welfare Seriously. arXiv:2411.00986. READ 

Status: Preprint · Type: Report and argument · Tags: Philosophy, Policy

Argues that conscious or robustly agentic AI systems are a realistic near-term possibility, and recommends that AI companies acknowledge the issue, begin assessing systems for evidence of it, and prepare policies for treating them with appropriate moral concern.

Mikeda (2026). When should we protect AI? A precautionary framework for consciousness uncertainty. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series 8(1), 280–286. READ

Status: Symposium paper (review process not stated by the venue) · Type: Framework · Tags: Philosophy, Policy

Links consciousness indicators to tiered protective duties using five dimensions with threshold triggers, and applies the framework to case studies of Replika and OpenClaw.

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