arXiv AI

Rethinking Data Quality for AI-Driven Systems: Evidence from Practitioner Interviews

The study examines how practitioners in AI-driven systems define, assess, and manage data quality, revealing six key themes. It highlights shifts in traceability, the use of models as quality assessors, and the emergence of new data objects such as agent context and synthetic data. The research proposes a lifecycle assurance framework to provide evidence that data supports specific AI claims throughout model behavior, judgments, and agent actions.

arXiv AI
Sep 25

The Gold in Bias: Maturing the AI Design Process through Verification

The paper proposes rethinking bias in AI as a diagnostic tool rather than merely a flaw to be minimized. It introduces a multidimensional framework that examines bias across origin, lifecycle emergence, technical causes, and validation methods, covering 30 bias types, 16 verification methods, and 20 countermeasures for both traditional and generative AI. The authors present a hierarchical evidence framework distinguishing internal and external validity, and advocate for Ethics by Design principles to embed bias verification throughout the AI development lifecycle.

By Samira Maghool, Paolo Ceravolo
arXiv AI
Sep 23

Trustworthy Agentic AI: Failure Modes, Mitigation Strategies, and a Lifecycle Framework for Autonomous LLM Systems

The paper discusses the trustworthiness of agentic AI systems built on large language models, highlighting new security and operational risks such as indirect prompt injection, memory contamination, and cross‑session data leakage. It categorizes failure modes, reviews mitigation strategies—including instruction hierarchies, context isolation, and constrained tool use—and introduces the Trustworthy Agent Development Lifecycle (TADL), a six‑phase framework for specification, design, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. The authors note that TADL has not yet been empirically validated but offers a structured foundation for developing more secure and accountable agentic systems, and they call for improved benchmarks and future research priorities.

By Fayeq Jeelani Syed, Rehan Ahmad, Ali Al Bataineh, Aakriti Adhikari
arXiv AI
2d ago

CIRCLE: A Framework for Evaluating AI from a Real-World Lens

arXiv:2602.24055v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This study proposes CIRCLE, a six-stage, lifecycle-based framework to bridge the reality gap between model-centric performance metrics and AI syste...

By Reva Schwartz, Carina Westling, Morgan Briggs, Marzieh Fadaee, Isar Nejadgholi, Matthew Holmes, Fariza Rashid, Maya Carlyle, Afaf Ta\"ik, Kyra Wilson, Peter Douglas, Theodora Skeadas, Gabriella Waters, Rumman Chowdhury, Thiago Lacerda
arXiv AI
Jun 17

An Evaluation of Data Leakage Risks in Tool-Using LLM Agents in Realistic Scenarios

arXiv:2606. 17114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly being adopted in enterprise and personal settings with access to emails, databases, documents, and other tools where they can read, update, and disseminate sensitive information.

By Hankyul Baek, Jaewon Noh, Sang Seo, Yongsu Kim, Gabriel Waikin Loh Matienzo, Young Il Kim, Ee Wei Seah, Akriti Vij