AI safety and alignment

Alignment, interpretability, red-teaming, bias and privacy: the research on what these systems do when they misbehave.

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arXiv AI
Jul 2

Adversarial Pragmatics for AI Safety Evaluation: A Benchmark for Instruction Conflict, Embedded Commands, and Policy Ambiguity

arXiv:2607. 01153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluations for language models increasingly depend on judgments about ambiguous natural-language behaviour: whether a model has followed an instruction, refused appropriately, complied with a policy, resisted an embedded command, or misreported progress in an agentic task.

By Brett Reynolds
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Generated Contents Enrichment

arXiv:2405. 03650v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study Generated Contents Enrichment (GCE), a conditional image-generation task in which a sparse scene description is first enriched through an explicit scene representation and then rendered into semantically richer visual content.

By Mahdi Naseri, Jiayan Qiu, Zhou Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 2

NeuroCogMap Reveals Cognitive Organization of Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 00397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how complex cognitive functions are organized within artificial systems is central to interpreting large language models (LLMs) and relating them to biological cognition.

By Zhongxiang Sun, Haolang Lu, Qiang Ma, Qi Li, Qipeng Wang, Liang Pang, Chenyu Liu, Qiankun Li, Hao Sun, Kun Wang, Yi Zeng, Jun Xu, Guoqi Li, Ji-Rong Wen