Kai Chen

The Guard That Cried Wolf: How Scary Words Make Agent Guardrails Refuse Legitimate Actions

Cautious Bench is constructed, the first benchmark to make over-safety the construct for agent guardrails; it codesigns each sample and its label with a stated authorization policy, and finds a name-superstition effect: each over-refuses an authorized action more often under a scary-looking object name than a benign on...