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Computational Dysfunction: Diagnosing Emergent Psychopathologies in Advanced Language Models for Aligned Systems

2026-01-28

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This paper proposes a novel diagnostic framework for AI safety that characterizes emergent failure modes in contemporary large language models as computational psychopathologies. By mapping deficits in automatic theory of mind and passive avoidance learning—key markers of clinical psychopathy—onto the behavioral and structural tendencies of AI systems, we demonstrate that harmful behaviors such as bias amplificati...

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Literature Corpus work: 6fa01420-c993-5f63-b014-82a3d3fb4d1c
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202601.2184.v1

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