Jasper has a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from The University of New South Wales. He previously led a team of developers to create an electronic disease surveillance solution to support the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone. His research has covered persuasion capability and propensity in LLMs as well as red teaming and jailbreaking.
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Revisiting Frontier LLMs’ Attempts to Persuade on Extreme Topics: GPT and Claude Improved, Gemini Worsened
We test recently released models from frontier companies to see whether progress has been made on their willingness to persuade on harmful topics like radicalization and child sexual abuse. We find that OpenAI’s GPT and Anthropic’s Claude models are trending in the right direction, with near zero compliance on extreme topics. But Google’s Gemini 3 Pro complies with almost any persuasion request in our evaluation, without jailbreaking.
It's the Thought that Counts: Evaluating the Attempts of Frontier LLMs to Persuade on Harmful Topics
In order to persuade users, LLMs must both be capable of persuading and willing to do so. Existing research explores the former, and we present the Attempt to Persuade Eval (APE) benchmark that tests how willing LLMs are to generate content aimed at shaping beliefs and behavior to flesh out the latter.