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BeliefShift: Benchmarking Temporal Belief Consistency and Opinion Drift in LLM Agents

LLMs are increasingly used as long-running conversational agents, yet every major benchmark evaluating their memory treats user information as static facts to be stored and retrieved. That's the wrong model. People change their minds, and over extended interactions, phenomena like opinion drift, over-alignment, and confirmation bias start to matter a lot. BeliefShift introduces a longitudinal benchmark designed specifically to evaluate belief dynamics in multi-session LLM interactions. It covers

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Published: 25 March 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Safety & alignment · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (25 March 2026), “BeliefShift: Benchmarking Temporal Belief Consistency and Opinion Drift in LLM Agents,” evidence record 6786, https://ethics.ai/record/6786 (originally published by arXiv).

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