Framing the Narrative: Ideological Mimicry in Large Language Models
arXiv preprint · 2026 · Macmillan-Scott, Jacobs, Metternich & Musolesi
About
I work at the intersection of technical AI research and its governance and societal implications. My current research examines reasoning and rationality in large language models, including the downstream consequences of deviations from expected behaviour. I combine a background in computer science, mathematics, and international relations with experience producing research for academic, government, and industry audiences.
Selected research
ContextAdapt: Evaluating Contextual Adaptation and Value Alignment in LLMs
arXiv preprint · 2026 · Macmillan-Scott & Musolesi
Safe AI Should be Bounded and Multi-Agent
Pre-print · 2026 · Hyland et al.
Maynard Smith Revisited: A Multi-Agent RL Approach to the Coevolution of Signalling Behaviour
PLOS Computational Biology · 2025 · Macmillan-Scott & Musolesi
(Ir)rationality and Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models
Royal Society Open Science · 2024 · Macmillan-Scott & Musolesi
Game-theoretic agent-based modelling of micro-level conflict: Evidence from the ISIS-Kurdish War
PLOS ONE · 2024 · Macmillan-Scott, Ünver & Musolesi
News
- New preprint: Framing the Narrative: Ideological Mimicry in Large Language Models.
- New preprint: ContextAdapt: Evaluating Contextual Adaptation and Value Alignment in LLMs.
- New preprint on bounded rationality in multi-agent systems.
- Winter Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), researching honesty in Constitutional AI, supervised by Atoosa Kasirzadeh.
- Two new preprints on cross-lingual information retrieval: generative query expansion and cross-lingual ranking.
- Review of current literature on Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) with multilingual LLMs.
- Started as AI Research Intern at the Alan Turing Institute, working on Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval.
- New paper published in PLOS Computational Biology: Maynard Smith Revisited, a multi-agent RL approach to the coevolution of signalling behaviour.