{
  "id": 13005976,
  "title": "Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM Agents under Knowledge Conflict",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/accurate-but-not-humble-evaluating-epistemic-humility-in-llm-agents",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-08T17:25:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12360v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When retrieved evidence contradicts an agent's prior beliefs, does it revise its answer, acknowledge uncertainty, or persist with an incorrect conclusion? Existing evaluations of agentic systems focus primarily on task success, offering limited insight into how agents handle such conflicts. We propose to evaluate agents on epistemic humility (EH): the agent's willingness to recognize, act on, and…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "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."
}