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Silent Dissent: LLM Agents That Yield to the Majority Still Represent Their Original Premise

arXiv cs.CL ↗ · 2026-10-05 Cached

A preprint study uses scripted peer pressure (Asch-style) to show that LLM agents who conform in multi-agent debate still internally represent their original correct answer, revealed via Jacobian-lens analysis of residual streams — implying stated consensus can overstate true agreement.

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Conformity Mitigations in Large Language Models Lie on a Single Resistance-Receptivity Frontier

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2026-08-13 Cached

A study measuring how large language models conform to unanimous peer opinions in multi-agent settings, finding that existing mitigations trade off resistance against receptivity, with reasoning being the only intervention that improves both on MMLU.

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Social Pressure Breaks Majority Voting in LLM Safety Panels

arXiv cs.CL ↗ · 2026-08-06 Cached

This arXiv paper studies how shared social cues from simulated peers break the majority-voting protection in LLM safety panels. It shows that when all reviewers receive the same incorrect 'unsafe' label, panel false-alarm rates jump to 100%, revealing a failure mode and offering a pre-deployment diagnostic.

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