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Safe by Benchmark, Unsafe in Practice: Lessons from 1331 Child-Related AI Incidents
Junfeng Jiao, Kevin Chen, Shrestha Mishra +4
AI systems are increasingly present in children's everyday environments: education, entertainment, social networks, and toys. Their safety is typically assessed at the model level,…
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…
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…