On the Alignment of Large Language Models with Global Human Opinion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01418v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:19:17 GMT
• Title: On the Alignment of Large Language Models with Global Human Opinion
• Authors: Yang Liu, Masahiro Kaneko, Chenhui Chu,
• Abstract summary: This study is the first comprehensive investigation of the topic of opinion alignment in large language models (LLMs) across global, language, and temporal dimensions.<n>We create an evaluation framework based on the World Values Survey (WVS) to systematically assess the alignment of LLMs with human opinions.<n>We find that LLMs appropriately or over-align the opinions with only a few countries while under-aligning the opinions with most countries.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Today's large language models (LLMs) are capable of supporting multilingual scenarios, allowing users to interact with LLMs in their native languages. When LLMs respond to subjective questions posed by users, they are expected to align with the views of specific demographic groups or historical periods, shaped by the language in which the user interacts with the model. Existing studies mainly focus on researching the opinions represented by LLMs among demographic groups in the United States or a few countries, lacking worldwide country samples and studies on human opinions in different historical periods, as well as lacking discussion on using language to steer LLMs. Moreover, they also overlook the potential influence of prompt language on the alignment of LLMs' opinions. In this study, our goal is to fill these gaps. To this end, we create an evaluation framework based on the World Values Survey (WVS) to systematically assess the alignment of LLMs with human opinions across different countries, languages, and historical periods around the world. We find that LLMs appropriately or over-align the opinions with only a few countries while under-aligning the opinions with most countries. Furthermore, changing the language of the prompt to match the language used in the questionnaire can effectively steer LLMs to align with the opinions of the corresponding country more effectively than existing steering methods. At the same time, LLMs are more aligned with the opinions of the contemporary population. To our knowledge, our study is the first comprehensive investigation of the topic of opinion alignment in LLMs across global, language, and temporal dimensions. Our code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/nlply/global-opinion-alignment.

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