Jad Kabbara

Existing cultural commonsense benchmarks treat nations as monolithic, assuming uniform practices within national boundaries. But does cultural commonsense hold uniformly within a nation, or does it vary at the sub-national level? We introduce Indica , the first benchmark designed to test LLMs’ ab...

Large language models (LLMs) tuned for safety often avoid acknowledging demographic differences, even when such acknowledgment is factually correct (e.g., ancestry-based disease incidence) or contextually justified (e.g., religious hiring preferences). This identity-blindness yields incorrect res...