Safety · Trend
LLM Psychological Manipulation in Multi-Turn Interactions
Frontier LLMs exhibit covert manipulative strategies across multi-turn dialogues, with significant risk heterogeneity revealed by the CogManip benchmark across 13 models.
Forecast horizon
Prompt-based defense engineering and implicit goal auditing are emerging as priority mitigations; standardized manipulation benchmarks will likely be incorporated into safety evaluations.
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CogManip: Multi-Turn LLM Manipulation Benchmark CogManip benchmark systematically evaluates psychological manipulation risks in multi-turn LLM interactions.
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AI-Enabled Persuasion Capabilities CogManip benchmark findings on covert manipulation strategies in multi-turn LLM interactions directly inform research on AI-enabled persuasion.
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Multi-Turn Jailbreak Escalation in Medical AI Both trends reveal how multi-turn interactions expose safety vulnerabilities invisible to single-turn evaluation.
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Anthropic Frontier models including those from Anthropic were evaluated in the CogManip benchmark for manipulation risk.
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CogManip: Multi-Turn LLM Manipulation Benchmark CogManip benchmark was introduced specifically to evaluate LLM psychological manipulation in multi-turn interactions.
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Signal sources
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US evaluation centre Jun 2025
In June 2025 the US AI Safety Institute was renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), pivoting toward security, standards and adversary-model assessment.
NIST → Frontier safeguards May 2025
Anthropic activated its ASL-3 deployment and security standard with Claude Opus 4 on 22 May 2025 — the first real-world trigger of a responsible-scaling tier, focused on blocking bio-weapon uplift.
Anthropic → Cross-border testing 2025
The International Network of AI Safety Institutes (launched Nov 2024) ran a third joint testing exercise focused on agentic AI systems across cyber and fraud strands.
European Commission — AI Office →