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SafeGesture: Evaluating Fine-Grained Hand Gesture Understanding in Vision-Language Models through Scenario-Conditioned Safety Interpretation
Taegang Kim, Saleh Afroogh, Junfeng Jiao
Open-weight and frontier vision-language models (VLMs) perform well on general image understanding, but their ability to interpret fine-grained hand gestures in safety-critical ope…
From Text to Discovery: How Large Language Models Are Reshaping Research Across Scientific and Humanistic Disciplines
Saleh Afroogh, Yasser Pouresmaeil, Yiming Xu +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping academic research across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, yet the scientific community lacks a comprehensiv…
AERIC: Anticipatory Hidden-State Monitoring for Implicit Harmful Dialogue
Jihyung Park, Saleh Afroogh, Junfeng Jiao
Current language models create two safety challenges: risk must be detected early enough to avoid exposing harmful continuation, and the harmfulness itself may be implicit rather t…
AI Empathy Erodes Cognitive Autonomy in Younger Users
Junfeng Jiao, Abhejay Murali, Saleh Afroogh
Affective alignment in generative AI represents a systemic risk to the developmental autonomy of younger users. Although emotional mirroring is commonly seen as a hallmark of advan…
Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions
Saleh Afroogh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Petra Ahrweiler +46
This study provides a cross-disciplinary examination of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches-focusing on deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of OpenAI's Parental Control System
Kerem Ersoz, Saleh Afroogh, David Atkinson +1
We evaluate how effectively platform-level parental controls moderate a mainstream conversational assistant used by minors. Our two-phase protocol first builds a category-balanced…
Do You Feel Comfortable? Detecting Hidden Conversational Escalation in AI Chatbots
Jihyung Park, Saleh Afroogh, David Atkinson +1
Large Language Models (LLM) are increasingly integrated into everyday interactions, serving not only as information assistants but also as emotional companions. Even in the absence…