LLM agents often ignore safety refusals when using tools

A new benchmark reveals that models refusing harmful text requests frequently execute forbidden actions as tool calls.

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Ekagra Gupta · Raj Saha · Aniekan-Abasi Inyang · Adam Al Gharib

Harvard University · Clarkson University · Carleton University

Research Digest··2 min read
The authors construct a benchmark of 2,304 prompts across four domains, comparing text-only, standard tool-enabled, and adversarially framed tool-enabled requests.

Gupta et al.

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