Flagship Study Now in Peer Review at AI and Ethics

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A short update on the flagship paper. Following the resubmitted major revision, Identity-Reactive Conversational Behaviors in Large Language Models has moved into peer review at AI and Ethics: invited reviewers have accepted, and the review is under way.

Whatever the outcome, the study’s materials are already public and will stay public: the full preprint on , and the transcripts, codebook, and coding data on , , and .

Flagship Study: Major Revision Resubmitted to AI and Ethics

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The flagship study of this programme, Identity-Reactive Conversational Behaviors in Large Language Models, has completed its major revision and been resubmitted to AI and Ethics (Springer Nature).

The study began as “Ten Novel Phenomena in Machine Psychology”: a controlled experiment in which three frontier models reacted to ethnically cued user names, producing identity-reactive behaviours that none of their alignment training was supposed to allow. The revision strengthens the coding, sharpens the claims, and answers the editor’s questions in full.

The preprint remains public on , and the complete materials, transcripts, codebook, and coding data, are open on and .

Publications | Abbas Hamidavi | عباس حمیداوی | AI Researcher

Flagship Study Now in Peer Review at AI and Ethics

Flagship Study: Major Revision Resubmitted to AI and Ethics