AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 6h ago7/10
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Silent Failures in Physical AI: A Literature Review of Runtime Action Authorization for Autonomous Systems
A literature review identifies a critical safety gap in Physical AI systems—autonomous robots, drones, and vehicles that make physically consequential decisions based on visual and language inputs. The research reveals that existing safety mechanisms from AI content moderation and robotics operate independently, leaving no unified runtime authorization system to prevent silent failures where confident but incorrect model outputs cause real-world harm before hardware safeguards activate.