Empty Commitments: When Agents Promise What They Cannot Deliver

arXiv:2610.01045 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Affordance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Deferral — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• PM-Bench: Evaluating Prospective Memory in LLM Agents
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• Decision-Sufficient State Representations: Measuring and Reducing Write-Time Regret
• Cheap Talk, Empty Promise: Frontier LLMs easily break public promises for self-interest
• The Compliance Gap: Why AI Systems Promise to Follow Process Instructions but Don't
• Quantifying Overclaiming Propensity in Frontier LLM Agents
• TriggerBench: Investigating Prospective Memory for Large Language Models

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