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Causal evidence that language models use confidence to drive behaviour

September 7

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 07 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01293-x Kumaran et al. show that large language models making decisions on when to answer a question or abstain from answering can

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