Can LLMs Reason About Trust?: A Pilot Study

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Autores principales: Debnath, Anushka, Cranefield, Stephen, Lorini, Emiliano, Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy
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Publicado: 2025
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author Debnath, Anushka
Cranefield, Stephen
Lorini, Emiliano
Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy
author_facet Debnath, Anushka
Cranefield, Stephen
Lorini, Emiliano
Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy
contents In human society, trust is an essential component of social attitude that helps build and maintain long-term, healthy relationships which creates a strong foundation for cooperation, enabling individuals to work together effectively and achieve shared goals. As many human interactions occur through electronic means such as using mobile apps, the potential arises for AI systems to assist users in understanding the social state of their relationships. In this paper we investigate the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to reason about trust between two individuals in an environment which requires fostering trust relationships. We also assess whether LLMs are capable of inducing trust by role-playing one party in a trust based interaction and planning actions which can instil trust.
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spellingShingle Can LLMs Reason About Trust?: A Pilot Study
Debnath, Anushka
Cranefield, Stephen
Lorini, Emiliano
Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy
Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Multiagent Systems
In human society, trust is an essential component of social attitude that helps build and maintain long-term, healthy relationships which creates a strong foundation for cooperation, enabling individuals to work together effectively and achieve shared goals. As many human interactions occur through electronic means such as using mobile apps, the potential arises for AI systems to assist users in understanding the social state of their relationships. In this paper we investigate the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to reason about trust between two individuals in an environment which requires fostering trust relationships. We also assess whether LLMs are capable of inducing trust by role-playing one party in a trust based interaction and planning actions which can instil trust.
title Can LLMs Reason About Trust?: A Pilot Study
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21075