Raising the Bar for Chinese Adolescent LLM Safety: A Culturally-Grounded, Fine-Grained Benchmark

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Jinxiang Wang, Yifan Liu, Jing Tan, Xiangyu Zhao, Xin Yao, Xuetao Wei)

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.35902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety risks in conversations with adolescents are not always explicit. A request may appear harmless unless a model considers the user's age, circumstances, and earlier turns. Existing Chinese safety benchmarks mainly target general users and give limited attention to adolescent safety.

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