10 papers
Tailored to you: longitudinal effects of personalising language models
Canfer Akbulut, Justine Breuch, Arianna Manzini +6
Interest in developing personalised language models is rapidly growing. While personalisation is often viewed as a mechanism to better serve diverse user needs, the effects of sust…
Long-term Measurements: Towards a Longitudinal Understanding of Human-AI Interactions
Nicole Mitchell, Dhruv Agarwal, Maty Bohacek +2
Language models have taken on the role of a very new type of technology, by virtue of their "human-ness" and rapid integration into users' daily lives. This combination of features…
Pluralis v0.1: Towards a Multicultural, Multimodal, Multilingual Benchmark for AI Risk and Reliability
Alicia Parrish, Rajat Shinde, Sanket Badhe +57
Current AI safety evaluation and benchmarking frameworks predominantly rely on Western-centric culture-agnostic defaults that mask critical regional laws, socio-linguistic nuances,…
Detecting and Controlling Sycophancy with Cascading Linear Features
Maty Bohacek, Rishub Jain, Nicholas Dufour +3
Interpreting and controlling model behaviors through activation steering methods requires many pairs of contrastive samples that clearly exhibit desired or undesired behavior. Thes…
Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing
Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Chloé Bakalar +13
Existing alignment research is dominated by concerns about safety and preventing harm: safeguards, controllability, and compliance. This paradigm of alignment parallels early psych…
"Just a strange pic": Evaluating 'safety' in GenAI Image safety annotation tasks from diverse annotators' perspectives
Ding Wang, Mark Díaz, Charvi Rastogi +10
Understanding what constitutes safety in AI-generated content is complex. While developers often rely on predefined taxonomies, real-world safety judgments also involve personal, s…
Whose View of Safety? A Deep DIVE Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment of Text-to-Image Models
Charvi Rastogi, Tian Huey Teh, Pushkar Mishra +10
Current text-to-image (T2I) models often fail to account for diverse human experiences, leading to misaligned systems. We advocate for pluralistic alignment, where an AI understand…
Value Profiles for Encoding Human Variation
Taylor Sorensen, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel +6
Modelling human variation in rating tasks is crucial for personalization, pluralistic model alignment, and computational social science. We propose representing individuals using n…
Decoding Safety Feedback from Diverse Raters: A Data-driven Lens on Responsiveness to Severity
Pushkar Mishra, Charvi Rastogi, Stephen R. Pfohl +9
Ensuring the safety of Generative AI requires a nuanced understanding of pluralistic viewpoints. In this paper, we introduce a novel data-driven approach for analyzing ordinal safe…
Insights on Disagreement Patterns in Multimodal Safety Perception across Diverse Rater Groups
Charvi Rastogi, Tian Huey Teh, Pushkar Mishra +10
AI systems crucially rely on human ratings, but these ratings are often aggregated, obscuring the inherent diversity of perspectives in real-world phenomenon. This is particularly…