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Addressing Social Misattributions of Large Language Models: An HCXAI-based Approach

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Human-centered explainable AI (HCXAI) advocates for the integration of social aspects into AI explanations. Central to the HCXAI discourse is the Social Transparency (ST) framework, which aims to make the socio-organizational context of AI systems accessible to their users. In this work, we suggest extending the ST framework to address the risks of social misattributions in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in sensitive areas like mental health. In fact LLMs, which are remarkably capable of simulating roles and personas, may lead to mismatches between designers' intentions and users' perceptions of social attributes, risking to promote emotional manipulation and dangerous behaviors, cases of epistemic injustice, and unwarranted trust. To address these issues, we propose enhancing the ST framework with a fifth 'W-question' to clarify the specific social attributions assigned to LLMs by its designers and users. This addition aims to bridge the gap between LLM capabilities and user perceptions, promoting the ethically responsible development and use of LLM-based technology.


Aligning Faithful Interpretations with their Social Attribution

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We find that the requirement of model interpretations to be faithful is vague and incomplete. Indeed, recent work refers to interpretations as unfaithful despite adhering to the available definition. Similarly, we identify several critical failures with the notion of textual highlights as faithful interpretations, although they adhere to the faithfulness definition. With textual highlights as a case-study, and borrowing concepts from social science, we identify that the problem is a misalignment between the causal chain of decisions (causal attribution) and social attribution of human behavior to the interpretation. We re-formulate faithfulness as an accurate attribution of causality to the model, and introduce the concept of "aligned faithfulness": faithful causal chains that are aligned with their expected social behavior. The two steps of causal attribution and social attribution *together* complete the process of explaining behavior, making the alignment of faithful interpretations a requirement. With this formalization, we characterize the observed failures of misaligned faithful highlight interpretations, and propose an alternative causal chain to remedy the issues. Finally, we the implement highlight explanations of proposed causal format using contrastive explanations.


How AI Will Redefine Love

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Artificial intelligence is beginning to disrupt entire industries from finance to medicine. Yet the most revolutionary application has yet to arrive--and it's an existential one. As thinking machines become more integrated into our lives, we must expect a transformation in how we define what it means to be conscious; what it means to live and to die; and ultimately, what it means to love a non-human being. These questions are artfully explored in the plot of the 2013 sci-fi film, Her, which tells the story of a man who falls deeply in love with an intelligent operating system. This OS, Samantha, is designed to evolve and adapt her personality to appeal to Theodore.