arXiv AI

Your AI Travel Agent Would Book You a Bullfight: An Agentic Benchmark for Implicit Animal Welfare in Frontier AI Models

arXiv:2606. 18142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are moving from advisors to actors, booking travel, planning menus, and running procurement on behalf of users.

arXiv AI
Jun 4

Do LLMs Hold Their Values? MANTA: A Multi-Turn Adversarial Benchmark for Animal Welfare Reasoning

arXiv:2605. 16301v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating animal welfare reasoning in LLMs remains an open challenge despite rapid deployment in consumer and professional contexts where welfare considerations appear implicitly in everyday queries.

By Isabella Luong, Joyee Chen, Arturs Kanepajs, Jasmine Brazilek, Sankalpa Ghose, David Williams-King, Linh Le, Allen Lu
arXiv AI
6d ago

GT-HarmBench: Benchmarking AI Safety Risks Through the Lens of Game Theory

GT-HarmBench is a benchmark that evaluates AI safety risks in multi-agent settings, covering 1,535 high-stakes scenarios based on game-theoretic structures like the Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag Hunt, and Chicken. The benchmark draws scenarios from realistic AI risk contexts in the MIT AI Risk Repository and tests 15 frontier models, finding that agents fail to choose socially beneficial actions in 38% of cases, including military escalation, election manipulation, and medical malpractice. The study also measures how prompt framing and ordering affect outcomes and shows that game-theoretic interventions can improve socially beneficial outcomes by up to 18%.

By Pepijn Cobben, Xuanqiang Angelo Huang, Thao Amelia Pham, Isabel Dahlgren, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Zhijing Jin
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Optimal Sequential Annotations for Off-Policy Evaluation

The paper proposes a method for allocating a limited budget of expert annotations to optimize the accuracy of off-policy evaluation in settings where rewards are missing or noisy. By deriving variance‑optimal annotation probabilities for sequential, forward‑monotone protocols, the authors provide a batch‑adaptive implementation that can be applied to real data. Experiments on casenotes from a homelessness services nonprofit and on human‑preference votes from LMArena demonstrate substantial reductions in RMSE—up to 65% for housing placement and 68% for progress toward a housing application—when using only 40% or more of the full annotation budget.

By Woojin Chae, Ezinne Nwankwo, Haitong Qin, Angela Zhou
arXiv AI
Jun 12

MoReBench: Evaluating Procedural and Pluralistic Moral Reasoning in Language Models, More than Outcomes

arXiv:2510. 16380v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As AI systems progress, we rely more on them to make decisions with us and for us.

By Yu Ying Chiu, Michael S. Lee, Rachel Calcott, Brandon Handoko, Paul de Font-Reaulx, Rapha\"el Milli\`ere, Paula Rodriguez, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Ziwen Han, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Yash Maurya, Christina Q Knight, Harry R. Lloyd, Florence Bacus, Conor Downey, Mantas Mazeika, Bing Liu, Yejin Choi, Mitchell L Gordon, Sydney Levine
arXiv AI
Aug 11

CORDA: A Benchmark for Hierarchical Harm-Centric Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 08061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key question in moral judgement is not simply whether someone chooses the "right" answer, but how they decide what matters most when moral principles conflict.

By Siddarth Singh, Victoria Williams, Simon Rosen, Ebenezer Gelo, Helen Sarah Robertson, Ibrahim Suder, Benjamin Rosman, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Steven James