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arXiv AI By Bushra Asseri, Abdulaziz Asseri

Calibrated to Whom? Persona and Language Effects on Cultural Values in JEV

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The study audits the cultural values expressed by the decision‑only language model JEV using the 2013 Values Survey Module. By presenting 24 items to JEV under 12 matched Saudi and 12 matched American personas, in both English and Arabic, and across eight request formulations, the researchers found that JEV’s responses were highly repeatable (ICC 0.997) and that persona and language significantly influenced the model’s value profiles. Saudi personas shifted JEV’s answers toward the human Saudi‑US difference—capturing 87 % of the effect in English and 62 % in Arabic—while language, age, and gender also modulated the outcomes.

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