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9 papers

cs.CY2026

"Where is this coming from?" Uncovering Trustworthiness Ideals in AI-powered Peripartum Information Seeking

Vaibhav Balloli, Julia Erickson, Xinyi Li +3

AI-powered tools increasingly promise to fill information gaps in health, especially in domains like maternal and reproductive health that demand timely, accurate, and actionable i…

cs.LG2026

NodeSynth: Socially Aligned Synthetic Data for AI Evaluation

Qazi Mamunur Rashid, Xuan Yang, Zhengzhe Yang +5

Recent advancements in generative AI facilitate large-scale synthetic data generation for model evaluation. However, without targeted approaches, these datasets often lack the soci…

cs.CL2026

Cultural Authenticity: Comparing LLM Cultural Representations to Native Human Expectations

Erin MacMurray van Liemt, Aida Davani, Sinchana Kumbale +2

Cultural representation in Large Language Model (LLM) outputs has primarily been evaluated through the proxies of cultural diversity and factual accuracy. However, a crucial gap re…

cs.AI2026

A Unified Framework to Quantify Cultural Intelligence of AI

Sunipa Dev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Rutledge Chin Feman +16

As generative AI technologies are increasingly being launched across the globe, assessing their competence to operate in different cultural contexts is exigently becoming a priorit…

cs.CL2026

Cultural Perspectives and Expectations for Generative AI: A Global Survey Approach

Erin van Liemt, Renee Shelby, Andrew Smart +5

There is a lack of empirical evidence about global attitudes around whether and how GenAI should represent cultures. This paper assesses understandings and beliefs about culture as…

cs.CY2026

Cultural Compass: A Framework for Organizing Societal Norms to Detect Violations in Human-AI Conversations

Myra Cheng, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Alice Oh +5

Generative AI models ought to be useful and safe across cross-cultural contexts. One critical step toward this goal is understanding how AI models adhere to sociocultural norms. Wh…