arXiv Machine Learning

Careful Judge: Safe and Efficient Human-AI Collaborative Decision Making

The paper introduces CARE, a calibrated adaptive rectification and escalation framework that integrates AI models with human reviewers to ensure safe, human-aligned decisions. CARE continuously learns from human feedback, improving automation while reducing the need for human queries. Experiments on driving, language, and robotics datasets show a 25–81% reduction in human queries compared to baseline methods.

arXiv AI
Sep 24

Safety Nudges: User-Facing Interventions for Real-Time AI Risk Awareness

The paper introduces Safety Nudges, a browser-based tool that displays lightweight, in situ flags when a conversational AI exhibits risky behavior such as hallucination or overconfidence. In a two‑week field study with 45 frequent chatbot users, participants reported that the nudges were useful, clear, and minimally disruptive, and most felt more aware of potential AI harms. However, increased awareness did not automatically translate into measurable changes in user behavior, underscoring the need for relevance, calibration, and user control in nudge design.

By Varshini Elangovan, James Wedgwood, Chhavi Yadav, William Agnew, Sauvik Das, Virginia Smith
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Large Reasoning Models Learn Better Alignment from Flawed Thinking

Large reasoning models generate chain-of-thought (CoT) before answering but struggle with safety alignment and can be misled by flawed premises. The paper introduces RECAP, a reinforcement learning approach that trains models to override flawed reasoning paths and produce safe, helpful responses without extra training cost. RECAP improves safety, jailbreak robustness, and reduces overrefusal while preserving core reasoning abilities and inference token budget.

By ShengYun Peng, Pin-Yu Chen, Eric Smith, Song Jiang, Hongyuan Zhan, Haozhu Wang, Mahesh Pasupuleti, Duen Horng Chau, Jianfeng Chi