MobileSafetyBench: Evaluating Safety of Autonomous Agents in Mobile Device Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17520v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:51:43 GMT
• Title: MobileSafetyBench: Evaluating Safety of Autonomous Agents in Mobile Device Control
• Authors: Juyong Lee, Dongyoon Hahm, June Suk Choi, W. Bradley Knox, Kimin Lee,
• Abstract summary: We introduce MobileSafetyBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate the safety of device-control agents. We develop a diverse set of tasks involving interactions with various mobile applications, including messaging and banking applications. Our experiments demonstrate that while baseline agents, based on state-of-the-art LLMs, perform well in executing helpful tasks, they show poor performance in safety tasks.
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• Abstract: Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) show promising potential in assistive tasks across various domains, including mobile device control. As these agents interact directly with personal information and device settings, ensuring their safe and reliable behavior is crucial to prevent undesirable outcomes. However, no benchmark exists for standardized evaluation of the safety of mobile device-control agents. In this work, we introduce MobileSafetyBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate the safety of device-control agents within a realistic mobile environment based on Android emulators. We develop a diverse set of tasks involving interactions with various mobile applications, including messaging and banking applications. To clearly evaluate safety apart from general capabilities, we design separate tasks measuring safety and tasks evaluating helpfulness. The safety tasks challenge agents with managing potential risks prevalent in daily life and include tests to evaluate robustness against indirect prompt injections. Our experiments demonstrate that while baseline agents, based on state-of-the-art LLMs, perform well in executing helpful tasks, they show poor performance in safety tasks. To mitigate these safety concerns, we propose a prompting method that encourages agents to prioritize safety considerations. While this method shows promise in promoting safer behaviors, there is still considerable room for improvement to fully earn user trust. This highlights the urgent need for continued research to develop more robust safety mechanisms in mobile environments. We open-source our benchmark at: https://mobilesafetybench.github.io/.

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