EMNLP 2026 Study: LLMs Rely on Morphological Shortcuts for Drug Reasoning, Posing Safety Risks

jessyjli · x · 2026-08-22

Accepted to EMNLP 2026, this study finds LLMs often lack drug-specific knowledge and rely on word morphology. Models can confidently reason about fictitious drugs via affixes, a behavior localized to early-mid layers that poses safety risks.

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