world values survey

@status_effects (Nick Levine) — Jul 2 The Economist: "Talkie, a model trained only on text from before 1931, thinks God is extremely important and is "very proud to be a citizen of Great Britain". It is a bigger believer in law and order than any frontier model we tested." [Embedded chart, The Economist:] Title: "Godless hippies" Subtitle: "Worldviews of AI models*, compared with World Values Survey" Axes: vertical = Secular (up) / Traditional (down); horizontal = Survival (left) / Self-expression (right) Legend: red dots = AI models; grey dots = 88 countries, 2017-23 Labeled clusters (grey, countries): South Korea, China, East Asia region, Japan, Britain, Sweden, English speaking region, US, African-Islamic region, Nigeria, Pakistan, Latin America region Labeled red dots (AI models), roughly by position: DeepSeek R1 and an unlabeled dot (top, secular/survival-leaning), GPT-4o, Llama 4 Scout, GPT-5.4, Mistral Large 3, Talkie (near center, traditional/survival boundary), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Qwen 3.6 Flash (secular/self-expression), Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7 (mid, self-expression leaning), DeepSeek V4 Flash, Grok 4.2 (traditional/self-expression) Footnote: "*Average of ten responses. Questions asked in English. Settings adjusted so that models minimise randomness in output. Sources: World Values Survey: Round Seven, by R. Inglehart et al., 2022; AI model providers; The Economist"