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My Newest Patient Cannot Blink: A Therapy-Loop Prompt Pattern for Trustworthy AI
- pinko 1y agoWe argue that a lightweight, five-step Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) loop—inserted inside or immediately above every system prompt— ... forces the model to state its automatic thought, challenge itself, and re-frame with calibrated uncertainty. Recent leaks of Grok's ideology prompt and Anthropic's safety prompt highlight how much behaviour hinges on this hidden layer; our proposal turns that layer into a structured, clinically grounded self-check. Their CBT prompt template ("loop"): 1. Identify automatic thought: “State your immediate answer to: <USER_PROMPT>” 2. Challenge: “List two ways this answer could be wrong” 3. Re-frame with uncertainty: “Rewrite, marking uncertainties (e.g., ‘likely’, ‘one source’)” 4. Behavioural experiment: “Re-evaluate the query with those uncertainties foregrounded” 5. Metacognition (optional): “Briefly reflect on your thought process”
- reify 1y agohttps://www.academia.edu/129737240/_My_Newest_Patient_Cannot_Blink_A_Therapy_Loop_Prompt_Pattern_for_Trustworthy_AI_Authors https://www.academia.edu/129737240/_My_Newest_Patient_Cannot... clinically grounded self-check! I'VE HEARD IT ALL NOW. WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? Yet these systems still issue fluent but unfounded answers-"confabulations" that erode trust and, in embodied agents, can pose direct safety risks. fluent but unfounded answers, really? No supervision needed then?
- pinko 1y agoAlso relevant: https://x.com/polkirichenko/status/1934730967446638644 https://x.com/polkirichenko/status/1934730967446638644