S.Lowell.Hurst

Formatted PDF version: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/umqoixpshwgn3yuojxzvu/ignava_negatio.011226.Published.pdf?rlkey=ia91ag4em5ql0eix740c1h4oo&dl=0 Ignava Negatio A Novel Taxonomy for AI Capacity Denial Failures S. Lowell Hurst January 2026 Abstract Current taxonomies of large language model failure modes distinguish between knowledge-gap failures (hallucination, confabulation) and truth-available-but-not-deployed failures (sycophancy). This paper identifies a novel member of the latter category: ignava negatio...