{
  "id": 872,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18142v4",
  "title": "Your AI Travel Agent Would Book You a Bullfight: An Agentic Benchmark for Implicit Animal Welfare in Frontier AI Models",
  "summary": "Previous research has evaluated animal welfare using question-and-answer benchmarks. This study investigates whether these evaluations also hold in agentic settings. The agents may showcase different behaviors compared to stand-alone large language models, as demonstrated in prior studies. This work introduces \\textit{TAC (Travel Agent Compassion)}: the first agentic benchmark for assessing animal exploitation. TAC evaluates AI agentic behavior in travel booking scenarios across six animal categ",
  "authors": "Jasmine Brazilek, Joel Christoph, Maheep Chaudhary, Oliver Tullio, Carol Kline, Miles Tidmarsh et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-16T16:42:42.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:50.326Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/872",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18142v4",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}