eddyayalagil/override-cascade-dspy
🌐 Detect and prevent safety overrides in LLM systems with this DSPy-based framework, ensuring actions align with safety constraints.
What's novel
🌐 Detect and prevent safety overrides in LLM systems with this DSPy-based framework, ensuring actions align with safety constraints.
Code Analysis
9 files read · 3 roundsA DSPy-based research framework that uses LLM prompts to assess safety risk and urgency of actions, predicts whether urgency will override safety, and applies tiered interventions (delay, block, escalate) to prevent 'override cascades' in AI systems.
Strengths
The prevention system implements a genuine mathematical safety decay model with pressure vector tracking, cascade trajectory prediction, and tiered intervention logic that goes beyond simple prompt engineering. The formal definitions module provides rigorous operational definitions of override events with validation logic.
Weaknesses
The core detection pipeline is entirely LLM-prompt-based with no learned parameters or training data — the 'intelligence' is delegated to GPT-4o via DSPy signatures. The README is severely misleading, describing a downloadable desktop application with a dashboard when this is a Python research library requiring API keys.
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MIT