{
  "id": 10589386,
  "title": "Right Answer, Wrong Reason: Accuracy, Consistency, and Consensus Are Misleading Indicators of LLM Faithfulness in Clinical Decision Support",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/right-answer-wrong-reason-accuracy-consistency-and-consensus-are",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-26T17:44:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32817v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Clinical Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong medical-exam accuracy; however, a correct answer does not guarantee that the explanation names the concepts that actually drove the decision. We introduce three lightweight, directly interpretable metrics for this faithfulness gap: the Explanation Stability Index (ESI), which measures reasoning consistency across repeated queries; the Causal…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}