Thomas Costello
Professor | Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas Costello is an Assistant Professor in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds appointments as Affiliated Faculty at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and is a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His research integrates psychology, political science, and human-computer interaction to examine where our viewpoints come from, how they differ from person to person, why they change. He also studies the sweeping impacts of artificial intelligence on these belief- and society-related processes.
NEWs & publications
Frontier LLMs Attempt to Persuade into Harmful Topics
August 21, 2025
attempt-to-persuade-eval
It's the Thought that Counts: Evaluating the Attempts of Frontier LLMs to Persuade on Harmful Topics
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It's the Thought that Counts: Evaluating the Attempts of Frontier LLMs to Persuade on Harmful Topics
June 3, 2025
its-the-thought-that-counts-evaluating-the-attempts-of-frontier-llms-to-persuade-on-harmful-topics
Frontier LLMs Attempt to Persuade into Harmful Topics
attempt-to-persuade-eval
