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New SentryBench benchmark evaluates LLM agents for public safety

Researchers have introduced SentryBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the adversarial robustness of large language model (LLM) agents, particularly in public-safety contexts. Unlike existing benchmarks that focus on generic harm or prompt injection, SentryBench measures a two-sided cost, considering both attack success and the consequences of over-refusal (missing real emergencies) or over-reaction (unwarranted actions). The benchmark utilizes scenarios derived from real emergency-call transcripts and adversarial payloads, formalizing deployment harm as an asymmetric cost functional. Initial evaluations across three frontier models demonstrated that cautious refusal strategies can lead to excessive over-refusal, while a proposed trust-gating wrapper achieved the lowest harm across all tested models. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could lead to more reliable LLM agents in critical public safety applications by addressing the trade-offs between caution and effectiveness.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper introducing a new benchmark for LLM agents. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New SentryBench benchmark evaluates LLM agents for public safety

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Md Abu Yusuf, Oyshi Tabassum Aditi, Md Faysal Hosain Mazed ·

    SentryBench: A Cost-Sensitive Benchmark for Adversarial Robustness of Tool-Using LLM Agents in Public-Safety Deployments

    arXiv:2610.34535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly wired to consequential tools that send public alerts, dispatch responders, and query citizen records, where one erroneous tool call carries real-world cost. Existing agent-safety …