$PA^3$: $\textbf{P}$olicy-$\textbf{A}$ware $\textbf{A}$gent $\textbf{A}$lignment through Chain-of-Thought

Researchers developed PA³, a new method to improve AI assistant alignment with business policies by teaching models to recall and apply relevant rules during reasoning without including full policies in prompts. The approach reduces computational overhead by 40% while achieving 16-point performance improvements over baselines.