The safety-utility tradeoff isn't a fixed property of models. It's largely unresolved ambiguity that multi-turn interaction can resolve. The question isn't whether a model refuses — it's whether it can revise.
paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.27093
Current LLM safety alignment techniques improve model robustness against adversarial attacks, but overlook whether and how LLMs can recover helpfulness when benign users clarify their intent. We...
