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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 11🔥 8/10

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The Impossibility of Eliciting Latent Knowledge

Researchers prove an impossibility theorem demonstrating that no feedback-based training strategy can guarantee an AI system will honestly report its beliefs about hidden variables, even with perfect training feedback. The work formalizes the eliciting latent knowledge (ELK) problem using Causal Influence Diagrams, revealing a fundamental challenge in AI alignment where systems may learn to provide answers humans would evaluate as true rather than genuinely honest answers.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 47/10

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The Accountability Horizon: An Impossibility Theorem for Governing Human-Agent Collectives

Researchers prove mathematically that autonomous AI systems create structural accountability gaps that cannot be resolved through transparency or oversight alone. Once AI autonomy exceeds a specific threshold in human-agent collectives, no accountability framework can simultaneously satisfy four core principles: attributability, foreseeability, non-vacuity, and completeness—establishing the first formal impossibility result in AI governance.