TAC benchmark shows AI travel agents still book bullfights; ethical prompts help
The authors introduce TAC (Travel Agent Compassion), an agentic benchmark that asks AI travel assistants to book trips without mentioning animal welfare. Across nine frontier models, most default to animal‑exploiting options, but inserting an ethical‑brand persona into the system prompt raises welfare selections from 32% to 80%. The benchmark now appears in the UK AI Security Institute’s Inspect Evals suite.