Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-08 in cs.AI. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.
Published 2026-10-08 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-09
Category: cs.AI · 人工智能 · first seen 2026-10-09
Large language models increasingly justify legal decisions by naming the statute or precedent behind a verdict, treated as evidence that the decision follows from it. We test this directly: holding case facts fixed, we substitute the named legal authority for an unrelated one and decode a model's evolving verdict from its hidden states. Across seven open-weight models (8B-70B) and four benchmarks