{
  "id": 4570282,
  "title": "When Robots Mishear Us: Mapping the Safety Risks of Voice-Controlled Embodied AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/when-robots-mishear-us-mapping-the-safety-risks-of-voice-controlled",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-28T16:55:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28518v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "We investigate whether automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors in user input can lead to unsafe outputs from Embodied AI (EAI) models. We find that ASR errors can lead to harmful instructions being accepted and executed by EAI models, thereby reducing safety. We simulate ASR errors and combine them with existing safety benchmarks (SafeAgentBench and POEX) to evaluate how different errors affect…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}