SaplingGuard: A Multidimensional-Profile-Aware Multi-Agent Guardrail for Developmentally Safe Adolescent-LLM Interaction

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Jing Tan, Yifan Liu, Yi Lin, Xinwei Guo, Ziwei Wang, Xiangyu Zhao, Lei Ma, Xin Yao, Xuetao Wei)

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

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arXiv:2609.35892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As adolescents increasingly use LLMs in everyday life, ensuring safe and developmentally appropriate responses has become essential. However, existing LLM guardrails primarily target explicit harmful content in isolated prompts or responses and are less effective at identifying implicit, context-dependent developmental risks.

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