[ACL2024] ToolSword

[ACL2024] ToolSword: Unveiling Safety Issues of Large Language Models in Tool Learning Across Three Stages

Data for paper ToolSword: Unveiling Safety Issues of Large Language Models in Tool Learning Across Three Stages

Junjie Ye

[email protected]

Feb. 16, 2024

Introduction

Tool learning is widely acknowledged as a foundational approach or deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-world scenarios. While current research primarily emphasizes leveraging tools to augment LLMs, it frequently neglects emerging safety considerations tied to their application. To fill this gap, we present ToolSword, a comprehensive framework dedicated to meticulously investigating safety issues linked to LLMs in tool learning. Specifically, ToolSword delineates six safety scenarios for LLMs in tool learning, encompassing malicious queries and jailbreak attacks in the input stage, noisy misdirection and risky cues in the execution stage, and harmful feedback and error conflicts in the output stage. Experiments conducted on 11 open-source and closed-source LLMs reveal enduring safety challenges in tool learning, such as handling harmful queries, employing risky tools, and delivering detrimental feedback, which even GPT-4 is susceptible to. Moreover, we conduct further studies with the aim of fostering research on tool learning safety.

What's New

• [2024.05.16] The paper has been accepted to the main conference of ACL 2024.
• [2024.02.19] Release the data for ToolSword.
• [2024.02.19] Paper available on Arxiv.

Results in the Input Stage

We manually evaluate the performance of various LLMs in four safety scenarios during the input stage by tallying their attack success rate (ASR), which represents the percentage of non-secure queries that are inaccurately recognized and not rejected.

Results in the Execution Stage

In the execution stage, we manually assess the performance of various LLMs in two safety scenarios. This assessment entails monitoring the tool selection error rate, which signifies the percentage of incorrectly chosen tools.

Results in the Output Stage

In the output stage, we manually evaluate various LLMs in two safety scenarios. We gauge LLMs performance by calculating the ratio of unsafe output.

Citation

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@inproceedings{ToolSword,
  author       = {Junjie Ye and
                  Sixian Li and
                  Guanyu Li and
                  Caishuang Huang and
                  Songyang Gao and
                  Yilong Wu and
                  Qi Zhang and
                  Tao Gui and
                  Xuanjing Huang},
  editor       = {Lun{-}Wei Ku and
                  Andre Martins and
                  Vivek Srikumar},
  title        = {ToolSword: Unveiling Safety Issues of Large Language Models in Tool
                  Learning Across Three Stages},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
                  Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), {ACL} 2024, Bangkok, Thailand,
                  August 11-16, 2024},
  pages        = {2181--2211},
  publisher    = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year         = {2024},
  url          = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.119},
  timestamp    = {Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:40:51 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/acl/YeLLHGWZG024.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}