In contrast, the overgeneralization of fear, a cardinal feature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), manifests as inappropriate, uncontrollable expression of fear in neutral and safe environments.

AI chatbots have a tendency to overgeneralize and misrepresent findings when asked to summarize scientific research papers ...

A study of adolescents who experienced childhood adversity found that they were less able to distinguish between signals of safety and threat in an experimental setting. This impaired threat-safety ...

These findings were published in the journal Current Biology. In overgeneralization, the brain lumps both safe and unsafe things together and labels them all unsafe. For this reason, the ...

Lastly, our study’s methodology can help benchmark LLMs’ overgeneralization tendency before deploying them in real-world contexts. In medical research, precision matters — not only in how we ...