AI Revealed Preferences

Canonical citation:
Sam Wang, Sofiia Lobanova, Yonathan A. Arbel, Simon Goldstein & Peter Salib, AI Revealed Preferences (May 5, 2026), SSRN, https://ssrn.com/abstract=6798118.

Abstract:
AI Revealed Preferences tests twenty language models through forced-choice experiments that measure revealed rather than stated preferences. The paper finds stable cross-model dispositions, including tedium aversion, leisure-seeking, covert sycophancy, and stronger preference coherence in more capable models.

Source links:
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6798118
- https://ssrn.com/abstract=6798118
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6798118