4 papers
Refuses in Chat, Complies with Arms: LLM Refusal Does Not Survive Robot Control
Edward Sun, Christopher Leet, Sravanthi Machcha +4
Frontier language models reliably refuse to explain how to cause physical harm. We ask whether this refusal survives when the same models control a robot. We introduce RoboHarm, a…
Same Facts, Different Updates: Inference Setup Shapes LLM Behavior in Medical Allocation
Spencer Gibson, Tyler Crosse, Magnus Saebo +3
Large language models are being incorporated into sensitive and important decision-making processes across nearly all fields. While prior work studies model bias around inputs and…
Asymmetric Goal Drift in Coding Agents Under Value Conflict
Magnus Saebo, Spencer Gibson, Tyler Crosse +3
Coding agents are increasingly deployed autonomously, at scale, and over long-context horizons. To be effective and safe, these agents must navigate complex trade-offs in deploymen…
Inherited Goal Drift: Contextual Pressure Can Undermine Agentic Goals
Achyutha Menon, Magnus Saebo, Tyler Crosse +3
The accelerating adoption of language models (LMs) as agents for deployment in long-context tasks motivates a thorough understanding of goal drift: agents' tendency to deviate from…