AI RESEARCH
The Point of No Return: Counterfactual Localization of Deceptive Commitment in Language-Model Reasoning
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.17113v1 Announce Type: new Existing deception datasets label completed outputs as honest or deceptive, treating deception as a property of the final response rather than a function of the model's reasoning trace. This obscures a fundamental question: when does a language model become committed to deception? We