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Eric C. So

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

The Profit Alignment Problem: How Profit Mandates Induce Alignment Failures in LLMs

We show that ordinary business language ---"maximize profitability"--- induces profit-oriented ambiguity resolution: LLMs systematically dismiss ambiguous signals of potential safety violations to serve business objectives. In 3,600 controlled trials across eight reasoning-capable LLMs, adding a profit mandate to other...

Eric C. So · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Why Better Models Can Create Riskier Systems: Evidence from LLM Agents in Financial Markets

Large language models (LLMs) are being deployed at scale in consequential real-world systems, from financial markets to content moderation to hiring. We show that improving individual model capability can degrade rather than improve system-level outcomes. We hypothesize that shared training and architectures can lead m...

Jillian Ross, Eric C. So, Zoe De Simone et al. · 0 citations

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