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AuAu: A Benchmark for Auditing Authoritarian Alignment in Large Language Models

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. We introduce AuAu, a comprehensive benchmark that aims to assess the risk of LLMs generating responses with authoritarian tendencies. This benchmark combines three evaluation approaches: (i) psychometric questions from an extensive pool of 15 human validated instruments; (

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Published: 15 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (15 June 2026), “AuAu: A Benchmark for Auditing Authoritarian Alignment in Large Language Models,” evidence record 982, https://ethics.ai/record/982 (originally published by arXiv).

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