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New benchmark evaluates AI assistants as spiritual companions

Researchers have developed JaleesBench, a new evaluation framework designed to assess the quality of AI assistants as spiritual companions. The bench comprises 140 scenarios derived from the classical Islamic text Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn, designed to test AI responses under adversarial pressures. Initial results indicate that while generic frontier models perform moderately out-of-the-box, guided instruction significantly improves their companionship quality, matching domain-tuned assistants. The study also found that all tested systems faltered under relational pressure, and the advantage of domain-specific assistants largely stems from their retrieval and prompting layers. AI

IMPACT This research introduces a novel method for evaluating AI's role in sensitive spiritual and ethical contexts, potentially influencing future AI safety and alignment research.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · M. Waleed Kadous (iaser.ai, Faith Family Technology Network), Benjamin Olsen (Faith Family Technology Network) ·

    JaleesBench: Are AI Assistants Good Spiritual Company?

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