AuAu: A Benchmark for Auditing Authoritarian Alignment in Large Language Models
The worldwide rise of authoritarianism and the growing role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in users' everyday lives raise the question of whether specific models exhibit or promote authoritarian attitudes. We introduce AuAu, a comprehensive benchmark for assessing the risk of authoritarian tendencies in LLM responses. AuAu combines three evaluation approaches: (i) psychometric questions from 15 human-validated instruments, (ii) vignettes probing intended behavior in concrete situations, and (iii) responses to realistic user prompts. Unlike prior work, AuAu measures not only overall authoritarian alignment but also its established sub-concepts: Authoritarian Aggression, Authoritarian Subm...
| Authors | Andreas Einwiller, Max Klabunde, Florian Lemmerich |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 15 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 17 July 2026 |
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