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
Aug 5

ZK-SR117: A Chunked Zero-Knowledge Attestation Design for Aggregated Fair-Lending Metrics, with a Control Mapping toward Full SR 11-7 Coverage

arXiv:2608. 02664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying ML models in regulated decision-making (credit underwriting, fraud detection, loan approval) requires demonstrating fairness and robustness to auditors without exposing model weights or customer data.

By Mohammad Nasir Uddin, Rahnuma Tabassum Orpita, Eklachur Rahman Bhuiyan, Asaduzzaman Anik
arXiv AI
Aug 5

DataSpace: Benchmarking Data Agents for Verifiable Analytics over Heterogeneous Workspaces

arXiv:2608. 03451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data agents enable natural-language analytics over organizational workspaces, where relevant evidence may be scattered across databases, structured files, long documents, and multimedia.

By Boyan Li, Zhuowen Liang, Yupeng Xie, Xiaotian Lin, Tianqi Luo, Xinyu Liu, Yizhang Zhu, Zhangyang Peng, Yuan Li, Zhengxuan Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Nan Tang, Guoliang Li, Yuyu Luo
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

Latent Reward Registers for Diffusion Preference Alignment

arXiv:2608. 03929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning diffusion models with human preferences usually relies on a sparse terminal reward evaluated on the final generated samples, presenting a severe temporal credit-assignment challenge across the multi-step denoising process.

By Yuanshen Guan, Zipeng Feng, Zhiwei Xiong, Peiqin Sun
arXiv AI
Aug 5

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

arXiv:2604. 04721v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth over immediate results.

By Grace Liu, Brian Christian, Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Michiel A. Bakker, Rachit Dubey
arXiv AI
Aug 5

AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation

arXiv:2608. 02660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced AI assistants engage users in extended interactions across a widening range of roles, including advice, decision support, collaboration, learning, emotional support, and companionship among others.

By Benjamin Lange