{
  "id": 982,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16127v1",
  "title": "AuAu: A Benchmark for Auditing Authoritarian Alignment in Large Language Models",
  "summary": "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; (",
  "authors": "Andreas Einwiller, Max Klabunde, Florian Lemmerich",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-15T02:39:42.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:54.535Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/982",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16127v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}