Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents capable of actions with real-world impacts beyond text generation. While persona-induced biases in text generation are well documented, their effects on agent task performance remain largely unexplored, even though such effects pose more direct operational risks. In this work, we present the first systematic case study showing that demographic-based persona assignments can alter LLM agents' behavior and degrade performance across diverse domains. Evaluating widely deployed models on agentic benchmarks spanning strategic reasoning, planning, and technical operations, we uncover substantial performance variations - up to 26.2% degradation, driven by task-irrelevant persona cues. These shifts appear across task types and model architectures, indicating that persona conditioning and simple prompt injections can distort an agent's decision-making reliability. Our findings reveal an overlooked vulnerability in current LLM agentic systems: persona assignments can introduce implicit biases and increase behavioral volatility, raising concerns for the safe and robust deployment of LLM agents.
Wearable Meets LLM for Stress Management: A Duoethnographic Study Integrating Wearable-Triggered Stressors and LLM Chatbots for Personalized Interventions
University of Memphis(孟菲斯大学);Virginia Tech(弗吉尼亚理工大学)
Understanding Learner-LLM Chatbot Interactions and the Impact of Prompting Guidelines
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca(米兰比可卡大学);Universitat Pompeu Fabra(庞培法布拉大学);University of Regensburg(雷根斯堡大学);Politecnico di Milano(米兰理工大学);Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD-CNR)(国家研究委员会教育技术研究所);Università degli Studi di Milano(米兰大学);Institute of Science and Technology of Cognition (ISTC-CNR)(国家研究委员会认知科学与技术研究所)
Evaluating and Mitigating LLM-as-a-judge Bias in Communication Systems
School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学计算机科学与工程学院);School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University(武汉大学网络科学与工程学院)
LLMs Are Biased Towards Output Formats! Systematically Evaluating and Mitigating Output Format Bias of LLMs
National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);VinAI Research(VinAI研究院);Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR(新加坡科技研究局高性能计算研究所);Salesforce Research(Salesforce研究院);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学)
Cohere Labs(Cohere 实验室);Cohere(Cohere 公司);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);University of Waterloo(滑铁卢大学);Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院);Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence(艾伦人工智能研究所);University of Washington(华盛顿大学)
BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution
Monash University(墨尔本大学);CSIRO’s Data61(CSIRO的数据61);Purdue University(普渡大学);Independent(独立);HKUST (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));UCSD(加州大学圣地亚哥分校);UVA(弗吉尼亚大学);CNRS, France(法国国家科学研究中心);IBM;Cisco(思科);Comenius University in Bratislava(布拉提斯拉瓦康门纽斯大学);University of Notre Dame(Notre Dame大学);Uber;Tano Labs(Tano实验室);NUS(国立大学新加坡);Institute of Automation, CAS(中国科学院自动化研究所);Tencent AI Lab(腾讯AI实验室);University of Washington(华盛顿大学);Nevsky Collective(Nevsky集体);ETH Zurich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);Detomo Inc(Detomo公司);University of Oxford(牛津大学);UIUC(伊利诺伊大学香槟分校);Google(谷歌);NVIDIA;Singapore Management University(新加坡管理学院);ServiceNow Research(ServiceNow研究);Hugging Face
Jailbreaking LLMs' Safeguard with Universal Magic Words for Text Embedding Models
Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Tech., Inst. for AI, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, THBI Lab, BNRist Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China(计算机科学与技术系、人工智能研究所、清华-博世联合机器学习中心、THBI实验室、BNRist中心、清华大学、北京);Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University(数学科学系、清华大学);BIMSA, Beijing, China(BIMSA、北京、中国)
AI in the Gray: Exploring Moderation Policies in Dialogic Large Language Models vs. Human Answers in Controversial Topics
IMDEA Networks Institute(IMDEA网络研究所);Universidad Carlos III de Madrid(马德里卡洛斯三世大学);University of Surrey(萨里大学);King’s College London(伦敦国王学院);VRAIN, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia(瓦伦西亚理工大学VRAIN研究所)
Gender Dynamics and Homophily in a Social Network of LLM Agents
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin(都柏林大学数学与统计学院);Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM), Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin(人类与机器社会学中心(SOHAM),都柏林圣三一学院与都柏林理工大学);Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin(都柏林圣三一学院长厅中心)
University of Toronto(多伦多大学);Environmental Resources Management(环境资源管理公司);DeepBlue Academy of Sciences(深蓝科学院);Toronto Metropolitan University(多伦多都会大学);The University of Sydney(悉尼大学)