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New arXiv Research Paper

arXiv ID: 2604.15717
Title: Into the Gray Zone: Domain Contexts Can Blur LLM Safety Boundaries
Authors: Ki Sen Hung, Xi Yang, Chang Liu, Haoran Li, Kejiang Chen, Changxuan Fan, Tsun On Kwok, Weiming Zhang, Xiaomeng Li, Yangqiu Song
Published: 2026-04-17T05:40:42Z
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15717

Abstract (first 300 chars)

A central goal of LLM alignment is to balance helpfulness with harmlessness, yet these objectives conflict when the same knowledge serves both legitimate and malicious purposes. This tension is amplified by context-sensitive alignment: we observe that domain-specific contexts (e.g., chemistry) selec…

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