XL-SafetyBench: A Country-Grounded Cross-Cultural Benchmark for LLM Safety and Cultural Sensitivity
Researchers introduce XL-SafetyBench, a comprehensive safety evaluation framework for large language models across 10 country-language pairs with 5,500 test cases. The study reveals that frontier LLMs show decoupled jailbreak robustness and cultural awareness, while local models often exhibit apparent safety driven by generation failure rather than genuine alignment.