Large Language Models are Not Always Faithful in Explaining Their Political Decision Making

Published in NAACL 2027 (under review), 2026

  • Extends the concept of faithfulness from alignment research to the political decision-making context
  • Operationalizes and compares faithfulness in three distinct evaluation settings: news credibility, source framing, and hate speech detection
  • Evaluates consistency under manipulated chain-of-thought (CoT) and personas

Recommended citation: Quang Minh Nguyen*, Hayden Arnold*, Taegyoon Kim
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