Listening Alone, Understanding Together: Collaborative Context Recovery for Privacy-Aware AI

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 14 Apr 2026] Listening Alone, Understanding Together: Collaborative Context Recovery for Privacy-Aware AI Tanmay Srivastava, Amartya Basu, Shubham Jain, Vaishnavi Ranganathan We introduce CONCORD, a privacy-aware asynchronous assistant-to-assistant (A2A) framework that leverages collaboration between proactive speech-based AI. As agents evolve from reactive to always-listening assistants, they face a core privacy risk (of capturing non-consenting speakers), which makes their social deployment a challenge. To overcome this, we implement CONCORD, which enforces owner-only speech capture via real-time speaker verification, producing a one-sided transcript that incurs missing context but preserves privacy. We demonstrate that CONCORD can safely recover necessary context through (1) spatio-temporal context resolution, (2) information gap detection, and (3) minimal A2A queries governed by a relationship-aware disclosure. Instead of hallucination-prone inferring, CONCORD treats context recovery as a negotiated safe exchange between assistants. Across a multi-domain dialogue dataset, CONCORD achieves 91.4% recall in gap detection, 96% relationship classification accuracy, and 97% true negative rate in privacy-sensitive disclosure decisions. By reframing always-listening AI as a coordination problem between privacy-preserving agents, CONCORD offers a practical path toward socially deployable proactive conversational agents. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Cite as: arXiv:2604.13348 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2604.13348v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.13348 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Tanmay Srivastava [view email] [v1] Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:18:06 UTC (129 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.CR References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)