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Autores principales: Kim, Eugenia, Tanase, Ioana, Mallon, Christina
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12702
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author Kim, Eugenia
Tanase, Ioana
Mallon, Christina
author_facet Kim, Eugenia
Tanase, Ioana
Mallon, Christina
contents General-purpose safety benchmarks for large language models do not adequately evaluate disability-related harms. We introduce DisaBench: a taxonomy of twelve disability harm categories co-created with people with disabilities and red teaming experts, a taxonomy-driven evaluation methodology that pairs benign and adversarial prompts across seven life domains, and a dataset of 175 prompts with human-annotated labels on 525 prompt-response pairs. Annotation by four evaluators with lived disability experience reveals three findings: harm rates vary sharply by disability type and will compound in non-text modalities, terminology-driven harm is culturally and temporally bound rather than universally assessable, and standard safety evaluation catches overt failures while missing the subtle harms that only domain expertise can recognize. Disability harm is simultaneously personal, intersectional, and community-defined: it cannot be isolated from the full context of who a person is, and general-purpose benchmarks systematically miss it. We will release the dataset, taxonomy, and methodology via Hugging Face and an open-source red teaming framework for direct integration into existing safety pipelines with no additional infrastructure.
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spellingShingle DisaBench: A Participatory Evaluation Framework for Disability Harms in Language Models
Kim, Eugenia
Tanase, Ioana
Mallon, Christina
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
General-purpose safety benchmarks for large language models do not adequately evaluate disability-related harms. We introduce DisaBench: a taxonomy of twelve disability harm categories co-created with people with disabilities and red teaming experts, a taxonomy-driven evaluation methodology that pairs benign and adversarial prompts across seven life domains, and a dataset of 175 prompts with human-annotated labels on 525 prompt-response pairs. Annotation by four evaluators with lived disability experience reveals three findings: harm rates vary sharply by disability type and will compound in non-text modalities, terminology-driven harm is culturally and temporally bound rather than universally assessable, and standard safety evaluation catches overt failures while missing the subtle harms that only domain expertise can recognize. Disability harm is simultaneously personal, intersectional, and community-defined: it cannot be isolated from the full context of who a person is, and general-purpose benchmarks systematically miss it. We will release the dataset, taxonomy, and methodology via Hugging Face and an open-source red teaming framework for direct integration into existing safety pipelines with no additional infrastructure.
title DisaBench: A Participatory Evaluation Framework for Disability Harms in Language Models
topic Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12702