{"slug": "adversarial-social-epistemology-for-assemblies-of-humans-and-large-language", "title": "Adversarial Social Epistemology for Assemblies of Humans and Large Language Models", "summary": "Researchers propose an adversarial social epistemology (ASE) framework to analyze how agents, including humans and large language models, exploit trust in scaffolded public assertions. The framework addresses gaps in existing models of epistemic bubbles and misinformation by focusing on subversion of inferential chains and auditability. The work aims to provide mechanisms for auditing and redressing trust breaches in communicative landscapes involving LLMs.", "body_md": "arXiv:2607.07760v1 Announce Type: new\nAbstract: We outline an adversarial social epistemology (ASE) for densely interactive communicative landscapes in which public assertions are scaffolded by chains of testimony, inference, institutional certification, and tacit trust. In such landscapes, agents have incentives and affordances to distort, color, omit, fabricate, or strategically under-specify information for private, reputational, rhetorical, or material gains. We argue that these phenomena are not adequately captured by familiar descriptions of epistemic bubbles, echo chambers, or misinformation diffusion. What requires explanation is how communicative agents exploit the commitments and entitlements that normally make scaffolded assertions trustworthy. We provide language that delivers the requisite analysis, outline mechanisms that subvert trust in scaffolded public communications, and outline machinery for auditing and redressing trust breaches arising from subverting the auditability of inferential chains, drawing on epistemic networks, enriched with an inferentialist semantics for interpreting assertions.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-social-epistemology-for-assemblies-of-humans-and-large-language", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07760", "published_at": "2026-07-10 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10 04:09:52.639377+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-ethics", "ai-safety"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-social-epistemology-for-assemblies-of-humans-and-large-language", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-social-epistemology-for-assemblies-of-humans-and-large-language.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-social-epistemology-for-assemblies-of-humans-and-large-language.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-social-epistemology-for-assemblies-of-humans-and-large-language.jsonld"}}