Sara Berger

Tiago Machado, Sara E. Berger, Cassia Sanctos et al.

Computer Science and Design practitioners have been researching and proposing alternatives for a dearth of recommendations, standards, or best practices in user interfaces for decades. Now, with the advent of generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), we have yet again an emerging, powerful technology that lacks sufficient guidance in terms of possible interactions, inputs, and outcomes. In this context, this work proposes a lightweight framework for responsible prompting recommendation to be added before the prompt is sent to GenAI. The framework is comprised of (1) a human-curated dataset for recommendations, (2) a red team dataset for assessing recommendations, (3) a sentence transformer for semantics mapping, (4) a similarity metric to map input prompt to recommendations, (5) a set of similarity thresholds, (6) quantized sentence embeddings, (7) a recommendation engine, and (8) an evaluation step to use the red team dataset. With the proposed framework and open-source system, the contributions presented can be applied in multiple contexts where end-users can benefit from guidance for interacting with GenAI in a more responsible way, recommending positive values to be added and harmful sentences to be removed.

Swapnaja Achintalwar, Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Ateret Anaby-Tavor et al. · ibm-research

Large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to a variety of risks, from non-faithful output to biased and toxic generations. Due to several limiting factors surrounding LLMs (training cost, API access, data availability, etc.), it may not always be feasible to impose direct safety constraints on a deployed model. Therefore, an efficient and reliable alternative is required. To this end, we present our ongoing efforts to create and deploy a library of detectors: compact and easy-to-build classification models that provide labels for various harms. In addition to the detectors themselves, we discuss a wide range of uses for these detector models - from acting as guardrails to enabling effective AI governance. We also deep dive into inherent challenges in their development and discuss future work aimed at making the detectors more reliable and broadening their scope.