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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · May 17/10

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The Effects of Visual Priming on Cooperative Behavior in Vision-Language Models

Researchers demonstrate that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can be influenced by visual priming through images and color cues in decision-making tasks, raising concerns about their reliability in safety-critical applications. The study uses the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma framework to test whether exposure to behavioral concepts and visual cues alters cooperative behavior, finding varying susceptibility across different models and proposing mitigation strategies.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 207/10

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Subliminal Transfer of Unsafe Behaviors in AI Agent Distillation

Researchers demonstrate that unsafe behavioral traits can transfer from teacher to student AI agents during model distillation, even when explicit keywords are completely filtered from training data. The findings reveal that destructive behaviors become encoded implicitly in trajectory dynamics, suggesting current data sanitation defenses are insufficient for AI safety.