AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 8h ago6/10
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Evaluating Epistemic Guardrails in AI Reading Assistants: A Behavioral Audit of a Minimal Prototype
Researchers evaluated epistemic guardrails in LLM reading assistants through a behavioral audit of TextWalk, a minimal prototype designed to support rather than replace human interpretation. Testing across twelve analytical texts with escalating pressure protocols revealed that AI reading assistants risk shifting interpretive labor from readers to systems, with the most significant failures occurring not as overt collapse but in a middle zone where the system remains pedagogically sound while over-substituting for reader agency.