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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 18, 2026Published at 2:24 AM EDT · New York
New Study Reports Language Models Can Track Their Own Uncertainty in Medical Reasoning
The finding contradicts a 2025 Nature Communications paper that found models answered confidently even when the correct option was missing.
A preprint posted to arXiv, Large Language Models Show Metacognitive Sensitivity in Medical Reasoning, argues that clinical usefulness depends on two properties rather than one. The first is answer accuracy. The second is whether a model's…
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