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New benchmark SciHazard measures LLM scientific safety risks

Researchers have introduced SciHazard, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the safety risks associated with large language models (LLMs) in scientific contexts. The benchmark includes 2400 hazardous questions and 600 oversafety questions across 12 disciplines, grounded in real-world hazards and documented failure scenarios. SciHazard utilizes a decomposed harm scoring method called DeHarm-Score, which assesses query severity, refusal behavior, and response-level risks, including executability and net-new risk. Initial evaluations show that deep research agents pose a greater safety risk than standard LLMs, highlighting a critical gap in current AI safety defenses. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical safety blind spot in autonomous AI agents, potentially influencing future AI safety research and development.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper introducing a novel benchmark and evaluation framework for AI safety.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chunxiao Li, Yuan Xiong, Lijun Li, Tianyi Du, Wenlong Zhang, Lei Bai, Jing Shao ·

    SciHazard: A Benchmark for Measuring Scientific Safety Risks with Decomposed Harm Scoring

    arXiv:2607.18665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly support science, but they can also convert hazardous scientific knowledge into actionable misuse guidance. Existing benchmarks often rely on templated queries disconnected from real-world ha…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    SciHazard: A Benchmark for Measuring Scientific Safety Risks with Decomposed Harm Scoring

    Large language models (LLMs) increasingly support science, but they can also convert hazardous scientific knowledge into actionable misuse guidance. Existing benchmarks often rely on templated queries disconnected from real-world hazards, and employ LLM-as-a-Judge paradigms witho…