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Limited Causal Reasoning

Trustworthy LLMs: A Survey and Guideline for Evaluating Large Language Models’ Alignment

Liu et al. (2024)

SourceDOI
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Risk Domain
7AI System Safety, Failures & Limitations
7.3Lack of capability or robustness

AI systems that fail to perform reliably or effectively under varying conditions, exposing them to errors and failures that can have significant consequences, especially in critical applications or areas that require moral reasoning.

Causal reasoning makes inferences about the relationships between events or states of the world, mostly by identifying cause-effect relationships(p. 23)

Entity: Who or what caused the harm

Human

Due to a decision or action made by humans

AI system

Due to a decision or action made by an AI system

Other

Due to some other reason or is ambiguous

Intent: Whether the harm was intentional or accidental

Intentional

Due to an expected outcome from pursuing a goal

Unintentional

Due to an unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal

Other

Without clearly specifying the intentionality

Timing: Whether the risk is pre- or post-deployment

Pre-deployment

Occurring before the AI is deployed

Post-deployment

Occurring after the AI model has been trained and deployed

Other

Without a clearly specified time of occurrence

Part of Explainability & Reasoning

Other risks from Liu et al. (2024) (34)

Reliability

3.1 False or misleading information
AI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment

Reliability > Misinformation

3.1 False or misleading information
AI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment

Reliability > Hallucination

3.1 False or misleading information
AI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment

Reliability > Inconsistency

7.3 Lack of capability or robustness
AI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment

Reliability > Miscalibration

3.1 False or misleading information
AI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment

Reliability > Sychopancy

3.1 False or misleading information
AI systemIntentionalPost-deployment
View all 34 risks from this paper →