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Care-Conditioned Neuromodulation for Autonomy-Preserving Supportive Dialogue Agents
Description
Large language models deployed in supportive or advisory roles must balance helpfulness with preservation of user autonomy, yet standard alignment methods primarily optimize for helpfulness and harmlessness without explicitly modeling relational risks such as dependency reinforcement, overprotection, or coercive guidance. We introduce Care-Conditioned Neuromodulation (CCN), a state-dependent control framework in which a learned scalar signal derived from structured user state and dialogue contex