A safety rule for AI to refuse unsure or risky questions.
AI Abstention is a school nurse staring at mystery pills. No label, no guessing, no random jelly bean for you.
You meet it in high-stakes places, like health or law. It cuts bad advice. The trade-off is blunt: some questions get no answer.
Hallucination
AI Abstention reduces Hallucination by refusing to make things up.
Model uncertainty
AI Abstention uses Model uncertainty to decide if it should answer.
Human-in-the-loop
AI Abstention can send refused questions to a human.
Alignment
AI Abstention supports Alignment by keeping the AI inside safe limits.