PsychoSafe: Eliciting Psychologically-Informed Refusals in Large Language Models

This paper introduces PsychoSafe, a refusal framework grounded in evidence-based intervention strategies, and evaluates prompting and fine-tuning approaches for psychologically informed LLM refusals.

June 2026 · G. Barmina, F. Torrielli, S. Harms, J. Nielsen, F. Mächtle, S. L. Beltoft, P. Schneider-Kamp, T. Eisenbarth, L. G. Poech, A. Lauscher

Confidence and Calibration of Activation Oracles for Reliable Interpretation of Language Model Internals

This paper evaluates six confidence-estimation methods for activation oracles and finds that bootstrap mode frequency is the best-calibrated method among those tested, while log-probability can serve as a cheaper triage signal.

May 2026 · F. Torrielli, P. Schneider-Kamp, L. G. Poech

How to get your paper accepted by an AI reviewer: indirect prompt injection in peer review

This study introduces the Author-Reviewer-Organizer (ARO) framework and presents a large-scale empirical assessment of indirect prompt injection in AI-assisted peer review, finding that hidden instructions are followed in 78% of cases for ChatGPT and 86% for Gemini.

January 2026 · F. Torrielli, S. Locci, A. Rapp, L. Di Caro

Prompt Engineering and Prompt Thinking

A 20-hour course on prompt engineering methodologies and critical thinking about prompts, taught at the Master in Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Torino.

October 2025 · Federico Torrielli

Paint it, BLACK: A Novel Methodology for Prompting

This paper introduces BLACK, a novel methodology for prompting large language models and generative AI systems.

September 2023 · F. Torrielli