papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Study Probes How Defendant Statements Influence LLM-Simulated Jurors
A new paper examines whether and how a defendant's courtroom statement shifts the verdicts of large language models simulating jurors in common-law trials. The authors focus on persuasion effects and potential bias in these simulated decisions, a setting where LLM-based modeling of human judgment had not previously been studied.