Overview

AI safety evaluation asks whether models and AI systems behave safely—not only on isolated prompts, but across conversations, tool use, human-AI teams, and physical or high-stakes settings. Common approaches include red-teaming and adversarial testing, curated benchmarks, simulated agent tasks, human studies, runtime monitoring, and formal verification. Evaluations measure outcomes such as harmful assistance, missed hazards, refusal quality, robustness to shifts, and effects on users or interacting agents. A central challenge is that strong benchmark results provide limited assurance about rare failures or deployment behavior, so evaluations must make their assumptions and evidence limits explicit.

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143 papers21 papers in the last four weeks, up 75% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. The Watchtower Imperative: Lifespan-Calibrated Evaluation for Frontier AI

    Oct 26, 2026Casey M. Williams, Jennifer Victoria ScurrellAI Safety Evaluation

  2. Trustworthy Recursive Self-Improvement in the Era of Large Models: Foundation, Risks, Evaluation and Open Challenges

    Oct 26, 2026Jiayue Pu, Ang Gao, Jinyi Bai +9Recursive Self-ImprovementLanguage Model Self-Improvement

  3. EAST: Embodied AI Safety Testing via Systematic Fault Injection in Digital Twins

    Oct 25, 2026Yuhao Tian, Tao Li, Ling Zhou +5AI Safety EvaluationRobot Safety

  4. BoardSafety: AI-Ready Data from Manufacturer Documentation for Development-Board Safety

    Oct 24, 2026Linjian Yang, Xinyan Wang, Kunpeng LiuAI Safety EvaluationLLM Safety Benchmarks

  5. Simulated Control Evals

    Oct 22, 2026Jeffrey Olmo, David Zhang, Tyler TracyAI Safety EvaluationLanguage Model Safety Evaluation

  6. Assessing the Empirical Evidence for Loss of Control from Agentic General-Purpose AI

    Oct 18, 2026Risto Uuk, Santeri Koivula, Lorenzo Pacchiardi +3AI Agent SafetyAI Safety

  7. Towards Human-AI Complementarity for AI Safety

    Oct 18, 2026Sander Lanbo Shi, Miranda Anna Christ, Eric Modesitt +20Human-AI ComplementarityHuman Oversight of AI

  8. How Intervention History Changes AI Agent Sabotage on Subsequent Tasks

    Oct 17, 2026Daniel Saeedi, Amirali AghazadehAI Agent SafetyAI Safety Evaluation

  9. What Social Media Teaches Us About Accumulative AI Risks

    Oct 15, 2026Dawei Li, Bohan Jiang, Huan LiuAI SafetyLLM Safety

  10. Limits of Statistical Assurance for Embodied and Agentic AI under Adaptive Adversaries

    Oct 13, 2026Inderjeet SinghAI AssuranceAI Safety Evaluation

  11. CompanionSafe: From Multi-turn Safety Evaluation to Guardrails for AI Companions

    Oct 13, 2026Xinyang Liao, Lingyu Li, Kaicheng Shen +4AI SafetyAI Safety Evaluation

  12. Safety for Whom? Benchmarking Understanding Beyond Refusal in Egocentric Multimodal Assistants

    Oct 13, 2026Yewon Han, Jisu Jeon, Suhyun Choi +5AI Safety EvaluationLLM Safety Benchmarks

  13. LatentRiskBench: Measuring State-Dependent Risks in Enterprise Agents

    Oct 13, 2026Jingyue Cong, Estrid He, Zhuang Li +5AI Agent SafetyAI Safety Evaluation

  14. Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities

    Oct 7, 2026Sebastian Prasanna, Jacqueline Tay, Alek WestoverLLM Safety AlignmentLanguage Model Distillation

  15. Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): Human-Centered AI Safety for Youth

    Oct 6, 2026Pratyasha Saha, Yaman Yu, Yang WangAI Risk ManagementAI Safety Evaluation

  16. Not What a Child Expressed: Auditing the Sign-to-Text Safety Interface in Child-Facing AI

    Oct 5, 2026Muhammad Rafiullah Memon, Viet Vo, Wanlun Ma +1Sign Language TranslationAI Safety Evaluation

  17. Inspect Robots: Evaluating the Capabilities and Safety of Embodied AI

    Oct 5, 2026Christopher Leet, Achu Menon, Sravanthi Machcha +12Robot SafetyAI Agent Evaluation

  18. Strategic Governance of AI Models in Earth Science

    Oct 1, 2026Makoto Kelp, Amirhossein Arzani, Patricia Castellanos +6AI Safety EvaluationClimate Modeling

  19. Reliability Engineering for AI Systems: Challenges, Methods, and Directions

    Sep 28, 2026Rong Pan, Yili Hong, Min XieAI Agent ReliabilityAI Safety Evaluation

  20. PlanGuard: A Guardrail for Multi-Step Plan Safety in Embodied Agents

    Sep 26, 2026Junchi Chen, Changtao Miao, Yuxiao Xiang +9AI Agent SafetyAI Safety Evaluation

  21. Evolutionary Safety of Recursive Self-Improving AI: Taxonomy, Risk Discovery, and Evaluation

    Sep 25, 2026Chang Gong, Jingping Bi, Di Yao +3Recursive Self-ImprovementAI Safety Evaluation

  22. TempQ-Jail: Query-Constrained Candidate Ranking for Text-to-Video Jailbreak Attacks

    Sep 25, 2026Tianmeng Fang, Jiancheng Wang, Chen Wang +4Jailbreak AttacksMultimodal Jailbreak Attacks

  23. When Intent Arrives Late: A Benchmark for Full-Duplex Speech Models under Delayed Intent Revelation

    Sep 24, 2026Yang Xiao, Tianyi Peng, Hanyu Meng +1Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue SystemsLLM Safety Benchmarks

  24. An Open Pipeline and Dashboard for Systemic-Risk Evidence under the EU AI Act's Code of Practice

    Sep 23, 2026Jacob T. Emmerson, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, Ronan Romano +3AI Safety EvaluationLLM Safety Benchmarks

  25. When Compliance Data Masquerades as Evaluation: Measurement Validity for Deployed AI Systems

    Sep 12, 2026Hung-Yu Lin, Xingran Huang, Qiming Guo +1AI Safety Evaluation