4 papers
When Should AI Read the Room? Public Perceptions of Social Intelligence in AI Agents
Leena Mathur, Jenny T. Liang, Vasudha Varadarajan +6
AI researchers have been advancing socially intelligent AI agents (Social-AI) across embodiments, from chatbots to physical robots. As Social-AI is increasingly deployed in everyda…
Synthetic Socratic Debates: Examining Persona Effects on Moral Decision and Persuasion Dynamics
Jiarui Liu, Yueqi Song, Yunze Xiao +5
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in morally sensitive domains, it is crucial to understand how persona traits affect their moral reasoning and persuasive behav…
Why (not) use AI? Analyzing People's Reasoning and Conditions for AI Acceptability
Jimin Mun, Wei Bin Au Yeong, Wesley Hanwen Deng +2
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the need to incorporate lay-people's input into the governance and acceptability assessment of AI usage. However, how and w…
SafetyAnalyst: Interpretable, Transparent, and Steerable Safety Moderation for AI Behavior
Jing-Jing Li, Valentina Pyatkin, Max Kleiman-Weiner +7
The ideal AI safety moderation system would be both structurally interpretable (so its decisions can be reliably explained) and steerable (to align to safety standards and reflect…