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Measuring Risk, Not Harm: Detecting Psychological Harm Risk Factors in LLM Conversations
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers developed detectors for eight psychological harm risk factors in LLM responses, achieving 86% precision on held-out test data without accessing model internals.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building safety monitoring systems for production LLM applications serving real users over time.
- Watch out
- Detects risk factors in individual responses, not actual user harm, which depends on subjective context and repeated interactions over time.
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