Mihai Martoiu Ticu

@martoiu.bsky.social

Assigning political or socio-demographic personas to LLMs can induce human-like motivated reasoning, making them more likely to accept identity-congruent conclusions while standard debiasing prompts largely fail to prevent this bias. aclanthology.org/2026.finding...

Persona-Assigned Large Language Models Exhibit Human-Like Motivated Reasoning

Saloni Dash, Amélie Reymond, Emma Spiro, Aylin Caliskan. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026. 2026.

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