{
  "id": 18356,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09937",
  "title": "Carefully Considering Culture: Analyzing LLM Alignment in Single- and Multi-Cultural Settings using Cultural Consensus Theory",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.09937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work in NLP has probed large language models for their understanding of cultural norms across countries. However, this work typically considers distributional patterns, ignoring group consensus or possible multicultural environments within a country. In this work, we leverage cultural consensus theory (CCT) from cultural anthropology to model such multidimensional nuance. Applying CCT to the World Values Survey (WVS) across 10 countries an",
  "authors": "Krishna Pothugunta, John P. Lalor",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "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/18356",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09937",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}