“Recent months have witnessed significant progress in the field of large language models (LLMs).Represented by ChatGPT and GPT-4, LLMs perform well in various natural language process-ing tasks and have been applied to many downstream applications to facilitate people’s lives. However, there still exist safety and ethical concerns. Specifically, LLMs suffer from social bias,robustness problems, and poisoning issues, all of which may induce LLMs to spew harmful con-tents. We propose this tutorial as a gentle introduction to the safety and ethical issues of LLMs.”