Current benchmarks overlook abstention competence in agents due to compliance bias; a new three-gap taxonomy and metrics (Safety Rate, Usability Rate, Informed Refusal Rate) demonstrate tunable safety-usability tradeoffs in preliminary tests across five model families.
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What Benchmarks Don't Measure: The Case for Evaluating Abstention Competence in Autonomous Agents
Current benchmarks overlook abstention competence in agents due to compliance bias; a new three-gap taxonomy and metrics (Safety Rate, Usability Rate, Informed Refusal Rate) demonstrate tunable safety-usability tradeoffs in preliminary tests across five model families.