LLMs internalize safety policies through RLHF, yet these policies are never formally specified and remain difficult to inspect. Existing benchmarks evaluate models against external standards but do not measure whether models understand and enforce their own stated boundaries. We introduce the Symbolic-Neural Consistency Audit (SNCA), a framework that (1) extracts a model's self-stated safety rules via structured prompts, (2) formalizes them as typed predicates (Absolute, Conditional, Adaptive), and (3) measures behavioral compliance via deterministic comparison against harm benchmarks. Evaluating four frontier models across 45 harm categories and 47,496 observations reveals systematic gaps between stated policy and observed behavior: models claiming absolute refusal frequently comply with harmful prompts, reasoning models achieve the highest self-consistency but fail to articulate policies for 29% of categories, and cross-model agreement on rule types is remarkably low (11%). These results demonstrate that the gap between what LLMs say and what they do is measurable and architecture-dependent, motivating reflexive consistency audits as a complement to behavioral benchmarks.
Beyond Third-Person Audits: Situated Interaction Auditing for User-Centered LLM Bias Research
Department of Computer Science University of Chile Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) Santiago, Chile(计算机科学系智利大学人工智能中心(CENIA)圣地亚哥,智利);Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) Santiago, Chile(人工智能中心(CENIA)圣地亚哥,智利);Institute of Sociology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile(社会学研究所智利天主教大学圣地亚哥,智利)
Difference-in-Differences on a Censored Rating Scale Can Manufacture an Effect: Evidence from a Pre-Registered LLM-Judge Audit
Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学);The University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);The Pennsylvania State University(宾夕法尼亚州立大学);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学)
Evaluating a Layered Prompt-Injection Defence for the Model Context Protocol: A Record-Level Audit of Decision Conventions, Corpus Provenance and Reproducibility
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences(工程与自然科学学院计算机工程系);Department of Computer Engineering, Institute of Graduate Studies(研究生院计算机工程系)