Robert D. Hawkins

Recent evaluations show that large language models (LLMs) frequently fail to challenge users’ harmful beliefs in domains ranging from medical advice to social reasoning. We present a unifying analysis through the lens of pragmatics: these safety failures can be understood and addressed as LLMs ex...

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used to make visual content accessible via text-based descriptions. In current systems, however, description specificity is often conflated with their length. We argue that these two concepts must be disentangled: descriptions can be concise yet dens...