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Sep 2026
Probing Warmth-Mediated Harm in Speech-Enabled LLMs for Mental-Health Conversations
Audio LLM benchmarks measure understanding and dialogue quality, not whether speech-enabled models respond with relational warmth when a vulnerable user discloses a mental-health concern. We introduce a 7-turn scripted-disclosure probe grounded in WHO mental-health clinical guidelines, with each script run on the same...
Eugenia Kim, Bolor-Erdene Jagdagdorj, Dina Pekelis et al.
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