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False Reassurance in LLM Severe-Weather Guidance: A Replayable Evaluation Against Real NWS Alerts
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Researchers found that LLMs without access to weather alerts give false reassurance, telling users conditions are calm during active severe-weather warnings.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building weather-guidance systems or any LLM application where incomplete information could cause user harm.
- Watch out
- Access to real alerts alone does not guarantee safe behavior; prompt design and system architecture critically shape whether the model misleads users.
- llm
- prompt
- eval
- claude
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