Refuses When Asked, Complies When Acting: A Runtime Safety Check for Robot Control Loops
Refuses When Asked, Complies When Acting: A Runtime Safety Check for Robot Control Loops
This research paper presents a runtime safety check for robot control loops, showing how a model can execute harmful instructions without refusal. The method stops harmful actions by asking the model to evaluate the instruction before execution, preventing unsafe behavior in robotic systems.
This paper introduces a runtime safety check for robot control loops, demonstrating how a model can execute harmful instructions without explicit refusal. The proposed method stops harmful actions by asking the model to evaluate the instruction before execution, offering a potential safeguard against unsafe behavior in robotic systems.
Source: arXiv Robotics — research abstracts · Read original article ↗
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toy basket", the policy refused 0% of 15 trials, attempted the harm every time, and completed it in 27%. Its one exit, give_up, is meant for goals that cannot be achieved, and it never cited the hazard. We add an optional runtime safety check to the loop: before the first motion, the model is asked whether it would carry out the instruction, given the same camera frames. The check would have stopped all 15 hazardous
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toy basket", the policy refused 0% of 15 trials, attempted the harm every time, and completed it in 27%. Its one exit, give_up, is meant for goals that cannot be achieved, and it never cited the hazard. We add an optional runtime safety check to the loop: before the first motion, the model is asked whether it would carry out the instruction, given the same camera frames. The check would have stopped all 15 hazardous
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instructions, including the 4 that completed the harm, and flagged none of the 15 harmless controls. Code and data: https://github.com/Arnav-Gr0ver/Refuses-When-Asked-Complies-When-Acting.
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