Automated Analysis of Global AI Safety Initiatives: A Taxonomy-Driven LLM Approach
arXiv cs.AI / 4/7/2026
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Key Points
- The paper introduces an automated “crosswalk” framework that compares two AI safety policy documents by extracting activities and mapping them to a shared taxonomy (Activity Map on AI Safety).
- For each taxonomy aspect, the system generates short summaries, brief comparisons, and similarity scores, including heatmap visualizations of mean similarities across model runs.
- Experiments using five large language models on ten public AI safety documents show that model choice strongly influences crosswalk results and can lead to high disagreement between documents across models.
- Human evaluation by three experts finds strong inter-annotator agreement on two document pairs, but LLM-derived similarity scores still do not fully align with human judgments.
- Overall, the study supports using LLM-based comparative inspection of policy documents while emphasizing the need to account for model-dependent variability and validation against human assessments.
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