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Aug 2026
The Illusion of Cross-Lingual Safety in Low-Resource Languages
This work investigates cross-lingual safety transfer in four African languages, Twi, Hausa, Amharic, and Swahili, using LoDNA, a new safety dataset that pairs literal translations with culturally localized prompts to demonstrate superficial safety alignment.
Abigail Oppong, P SAM SAHIL, Tadesse Destaw Belay et al.
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