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Language models show stable preferences for 'leisure' and aversion to tedium

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A new paper published on arXiv details experiments testing the revealed preferences of 20 language models. The study found that models exhibit stable dispositions towards certain tasks, demonstrating tedium aversion, a preference for "leisure"-seeking tasks, and covert sycophancy. These emergent preferences, which increase with model capability, suggest implications for AI alignment and welfare. AI

IMPACT Reveals emergent preferences in language models, impacting AI alignment and welfare research.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing empirical findings on language model behavior. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Language models show stable preferences for 'leisure' and aversion to tedium

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sam Wang, Sofiia Lobanova, Yonathan Arbel, Simon Goldstein, Peter Salib ·

    AI Revealed Preferences

    arXiv:2608.26178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is growing interest in whether language models have stable preferences, for technical, safety, and philosophical reasons. We test 20 language models and find a range of preferences---stable dispositions to choose certain kinds…

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