physics.soc-ph · 2026-07-03 · No. 42

Physics and Society, 2026-07-03.

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    Robust for the Wrong Reasons: The Representational Geometry of LLM Robustness to Science Skepticism

    Minjong Cheon

    physics.soc-ph · cs.AI · cs.CL

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly consulted on contested scientific questions, raising the concern that they will sycophantically retreat from established consensus when a user signals doubt -- drifting toward a false balance that treats settled science as one view among several. We test this across three open instruction-tuned models (Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen2.5-7B, Mistral-7B), three consensus-science domains (climate, vaccines,...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.01951 · PDF

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