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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Shallow Alignment: How Post-Training Methods Determine Refusal Circuits And Steering Robustness

No post-training method achieves all three properties the authors would want from safe alignment at once: refusal that isn't concentrated in a few fragile components, safety gains that don't cost general capability, and safety behavior correctable through small, targeted edits.

Hoang Cuong Nguyen, M. Dras, Usman Naseem · 1 citation

Over-Refusal and Representation Subspaces: A Mechanistic Analysis of Task-Conditioned Refusal in Aligned LLMs

It is shown that harmful-refusal directions are task-agnostic and can be captured by a single global vector, whereas over-refusal directions are task-dependent: they reside within the benign task-representation clusters, vary across tasks, and span a higher-dimensional subspace.

Utsav Maskey, M. Dras, Usman Naseem · 2 citations
Book Open access Jul 2026

Who is Behind the Voice? User Reasoning About Agency and Capability in a Multi-Party Conversational Interface

A thematic analysis on open ended questions posed to participants after being led by either a human or CUI based leader on a collaborative task revealed five key themes around how they perceived the leader they were interacting with, highlighting key considerations designers should consider when creating such collabora...

James Simpson, Hamish Stening, Gaurav Patil et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Process-Constituted Intelligence: A Shared Criterion for Humans and Machines

This work defines strong equivalence across seven process features, assessable against human and machine cognition, and specifies design principles for GenAI that instantiate more process and preserve rather than erode human judgment and creativity.

Michael J. Richardson, Ayeh Alhasan, Cassandra L. Crone et al. · 0 citations

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