arXiv AI
Jul 28
Auditing Alignment Controllability in LLMs via Political Axes
arXiv:2607. 23519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Political audits of large language models (LLMs) usually reduce each to one point on a political compass.
Auditing Alignment Controllability in LLMs via Political Axes
Political audits of large language models (LLMs) usually reduce each to one point on a political compass. But that resting point barely matters in deployment: a model must land somewhere, and what counts is how far, and in which directions, its answers can be steered.
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Who Would You Vote For? Auditing Political Alignment in LLMs: An Italian Case-Study
As users increasingly turn to Large Language Models (LLMs) for information and advice on political matters, particularly during election periods, the political preferences expressed by these systems have become a matter of public interest. Prior research has shown that interactions with LLMs can influence users' political attitudes and choices, raising questions about how these models themselves evaluate political actors.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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The Wrong Kind of Right: Quantifying and Localizing Misfired Alignment in LLMs
Warning: This paper studies stereotypes and biases, and contains potentially disturbing examples, used for illustration purposes only. Our findings should not be interpreted as an argument against alignment.
arXiv AI
Jul 24
Directional Hallucinations: Ideological Drift in News-Grounded LLM Question Answering
arXiv:2607. 20487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer questions about political information, including in election-adjacent information settings where factual errors and ideological distortions are high-stakes.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
LLM-Ideoplasticity: Measuring Ideological Plasticity in the Political Behavior of LLMs as a Context-Conditioned Distribution
arXiv:2606. 28335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We argue, with systematic empirical evidence, that a large language model's political ideology is not a fixed point, but a conditional distribution $\mathbb{P}($position$\mid$context$)$ over a real political space.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
AuAu: A Benchmark for Auditing Authoritarian Alignment in Large Language Models
arXiv:2606. 16127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The worldwide surge of authoritarianism, combined with the increasing central role in users' everyday lives, raises the question of to what extent specific models exhibit or promote authoritarian attitudes and characteristics.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
MENTIS: What Belief Changes Under Alignment? Measuring Multi-Scale Latent Torsion in Language Models
arXiv:2606. 01060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Preference alignment has substantially improved the observable behavior of large language models, yet it remains unclear what alignment changes internally.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
The Granularity Gap: A Multi-Dimensional Longitudinal Audit of Sycophancy in Gemini Models
arXiv:2606. 05183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as high-stakes advisors, yet standard alignment benchmarks treat sycophancy as a binary failure mode.
arXiv AI
Jul 9
Framing Instability in LLM Ethical Stance: Auditing Negation Sensitivity in Moral Dilemmas
arXiv:2601. 21433v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models are increasingly consulted on ethically consequential questions, yet the stance a model expresses may not survive a change in framing.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
PoliticsBench: Benchmarking Political Values in Large Language Models with Multi-Turn Roleplay
arXiv:2603. 23841v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as primary sources of information, their potential for political bias may impact their objectivity.
arXiv AI
Jul 17
Digital Pantheon: Simulating and Auditing Coalition Formation with LLM Agents
arXiv:2607. 15095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The formation of political coalitions is a complex negotiation driven by both concrete policy objectives and deep-seated ideological convictions.
arXiv AI
Jun 12
Prefill Awareness in Large Language Models
arXiv:2606. 12747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-relevant studies of language models, including alignment and jailbreaking evaluations and AI control protocols, often rely on prefilling model outputs.