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David Atkinson

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#natural language process... Preprint Oct 2026

Identifying Introspection From the Inside

Large language models make claims about themselves that are both consequential and increasingly difficult to verify from behavior alone. How can we distinguish plausible confabulations from genuine introspection? In this paper, we identify mechanistic signatures of faithful self-report in a controlled setting. Using lo...

David Atkinson, Dillon Plunkett, David Bau · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Government AI Use as a Monitoring Primitive: A Public Document Pilot Study

This work proposes a complementary monitoring primitive: measuring traces of language-model assistance in public government documents, and discusses how this signal could complement existing instruments for monitoring government AI adoption, and where it falls short.

David Atkinson, Jean O'Bryan · 0 citations

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