Do LLMs passively report confidence—or do they use it to guide behaviour? Our @NatMachIntell paper provides causal evidence for the latter: boosting/suppressing confidence changes whether models answer or abstain. Open access: nature.com/articles/s42256-0… @GoogleDeepMind @Princeton

Are LLMs stubborn or oversensitive to pushback? Both—at once. Our new @NatMachIntell paper helps us understand why LLMs become more confident in their initial answers, and how they markedly overweight opposing advice. Open access at: rdcu.be/feOjz @GoogleDeepMind × @UCL_ICN