Desmond C. Ong

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Constitutional AI & AI Ethics (2)Natural Language Processing (2)Eval Frameworks & Benchmarks (1)Red-Teaming & Adversarial Robustness (1)

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Emma Gueorguieva (1)Emma S. Gueorguieva (1)Hongli Zhan (1)Hongli Zhan (1)Jina Suh (1)Javier Hernandez (1)Javier Hernandez (1)Tatiana Lau (1)

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Apr 9, 2026

Apr 9, 2026·also Microsoft Research

AI generates well-liked but templatic empathic responses

Turns out, LLMs aren't actually empathic, they're just really good at regurgitating a well-liked empathy template.

Emma Gueorguieva, Emma S. Gueorguieva, Hongli Zhan +6

Constitutional AI & AI Ethics Eval Frameworks & Benchmarks Natural Language Processing

Mar 17, 2026

Stanford HAIMar 17, 2026·also CMU ML, Affiliation:, Harvard, Independent Researcher +3

Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs

Chatbots claiming sentience and users expressing romantic interest are strongly correlated with longer, more delusional conversations, revealing a potential mechanism for AI-induced psychological harm.

Jared Moore, Ashish Mehta, William Agnew +11

Constitutional AI & AI Ethics Natural Language Processing Red-Teaming & Adversarial Robustness

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