A finance agent can refuse the final answer and still hallucinate around the edges

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Summary

The article highlights that an AI finance agent refusing to give a final answer may still hallucinate by inventing side information, questioning whether this constitutes a failure in uncertainty evaluation.

A model refusing to give the final answer does not necessarily mean it handled uncertainty correctly. If it identifies a missing input but then invents a “typical” replacement value around the edges, that information can still influence an agent or human downstream. I'm curious whether people evaluate abstention as simply stopping, or whether unsupported side information should also count as a failure.
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