4 papers
When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents
Jaylen Jones, Zhehao Zhang, Yuting Ning +6
Although computer-use agents (CUAs) hold significant potential to automate increasingly complex OS workflows, they can demonstrate unsafe unintended behaviors that deviate from exp…
Active Attacks: Red-teaming LLMs via Adaptive Environments
Taeyoung Yun, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Jinkyoo Park +2
We address the challenge of generating diverse attack prompts for large language models (LLMs) that elicit harmful behaviors (e.g., insults, sexual content) and are used for safety…
Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?
Yoshua Bengio, Michael Cohen, Damiano Fornasiere +10
The leading AI companies are increasingly focused on building generalist AI agents -- systems that can autonomously plan, act, and pursue goals across almost all tasks that humans…
AIMS.au: A Dataset for the Analysis of Modern Slavery Countermeasures in Corporate Statements
Adriana Eufrosina Bora, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Mirko Bronzi +3
Despite over a decade of legislative efforts to address modern slavery in the supply chains of large corporations, the effectiveness of government oversight remains hampered by the…