Catching rationalization in the act: detecting motivated reasoning before and after CoT via activation probing
Catching rationalization in the act: detecting motivated reasoning before and after CoT via activation probing explores A method to detect motivated reasoning in LLMs using activation probing for improved reliability in decision-making.. Commercial viability score: 7/10 in NLP.
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