collaborators

5 papers

cs.LG2026

CAREBench: A Child-Safety Risk Benchmark for Language Models

Kaavya Krishna-Kumar, Elaine Lau, Vaughn Robinson +6

How can we evaluate whether frontier AI systems recognize child-safety risks before they escalate into explicit harm? Existing child safety evaluations focus on child sexual abuse…

cs.CL2026

Translation as a Scalable Proxy for Multilingual Evaluation

Sheriff Issaka, Erick Rosas Gonzalez, Lieqi Liu +6

The rapid proliferation of LLMs has created a critical evaluation paradox: while LLMs claim multilingual proficiency, comprehensive non-machine-translated benchmarks exist for fewe…

cs.CL2025

AI Debate Aids Assessment of Controversial Claims

Salman Rahman, Sheriff Issaka, Ashima Suvarna +11

As AI grows more powerful, it will increasingly shape how we understand the world. But with this influence comes the risk of amplifying misinformation and deepening social divides-…

cs.CL2025

The African Languages Lab: A Collaborative Approach to Advancing Low-Resource African NLP

Sheriff Issaka, Keyi Wang, Yinka Ajibola +17

Despite representing nearly one-third of the world's languages, African languages remain critically underserved by modern NLP technologies, with 88\% classified as severely underre…

cs.CR2025

X-Teaming: Multi-Turn Jailbreaks and Defenses with Adaptive Multi-Agents

Salman Rahman, Liwei Jiang, James Shiffer +7

Multi-turn interactions with language models (LMs) pose critical safety risks, as harmful intent can be strategically spread across exchanges. Yet, the vast majority of prior work…