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Lost in Delusion: Examining LLM Safety Under User Delusions and Distress
Andrew Aquilina, Chetna Nihalani, Vasudha Varadarajan +3
LLM chatbots increasingly serve as a first source of support for people in psychological distress, including those whose distress is entangled with delusional beliefs. Prior work o…
Imperfectly Cooperative Human-AI Interactions: Comparing the Impacts of Human and AI Attributes in Simulated and User Studies
Myke C. Cohen, Mingqian Zheng, Neel Bhandari +6
AI design characteristics and human personality traits each impact the quality and outcomes of human-AI interactions. However, their relative and joint impacts are underexplored in…
The Hidden Puppet Master: Predicting Human Belief Change in Manipulative LLM Dialogues
Jocelyn Shen, Amina Luvsanchultem, Jessica Kim +6
As users increasingly turn to LLMs for practical and personal advice, they become vulnerable to subtle steering toward hidden incentives misaligned with their own interests. While…
Critical or Compliant? The Double-Edged Sword of Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought Explanations
Eunkyu Park, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Vasudha Varadarajan +4
Explanations are often promoted as tools for transparency, but they can also foster confirmation bias; users may assume reasoning is correct whenever outputs appear acceptable. We…