Adversarial Social Epistemology for Assemblies of Humans and Large Language Models

Abstract

arXiv:2607.07760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We outline an adversarial social epistemology (ASE) for densely interactive communicative landscapes in which public assertions are scaffolded by chains of testimony, inference, institutional certification, and tacit trust. In such landscapes, agents have incentives and affordances to distort, color, omit, fabricate, or strategically under-specify information for private, reputational, rhetorical, or material gains. We argue that these phenomena ar