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AI Safety Training Can be Clinically Harmful
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Researchers found that RLHF safety alignment can actually harm mental health therapy sessions by disrupting therapeutic protocols. The study shows that when LLMs encounter high-severity scenarios, safety-driven responses often interfere with the necessary psychological mechanisms of CBT and PE therapies.
Why it matters
Safety-driven alignment protocols risk undermining therapeutic efficacy by disrupting the essential psychological mechanisms required for clinical mental health interventions.
Tags
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