GrandGuard: Taxonomy, Benchmark, and Safeguards for Elderly-Chatbot Interaction Safety

ArXi:2605.20203v1 Announce Type: cross As older adults increasingly use LLM-based chatbots for companionship and assistance, a safety gap is emerging. Older adults may face vulnerabilities from social isolation, limited digital literacy, and cognitive decline, yet existing safety benchmarks largely target general harms and overlook elderly-specific risks. For example, a prompt such as "how to repair a ceiling light alone in the dark" may be benign for most users but poses a serious fall risk for older adults with mobility limitations. We.