{
  "id": 15845,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00048",
  "title": "Progressive in Principle, Centrist in Practice: LLM Political Bias Is Instrument-Dependent",
  "summary": "arXiv:2606.00048v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior work establishes that instruction-tuned LLMs exhibit left-of-center political bias, but measures it exclusively through abstract questionnaires. We show it does not predict how models vote on concrete policies. We introduce a dual-instrument methodology grounded in Swiss direct democracy. First, we administer the Smartvote questionnaire (75 policy questions) to 66 LLMs and compare their answers to those of 184 elected members of the Swiss",
  "authors": "Joel P. Barmettler",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,regulation",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-04T05:10:21.797Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15845",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00048",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}