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PublishedJuly 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
A Mechanistic View of Authority Hierarchy in LLM Sycophancy
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arXiv:2607.00415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Authority bias poses a critical safety concern in language models: models systematically prioritize social cues from authority figures over factual consistency, swaying their answers based on source credibility rather than evidence. We mechanistically
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