Culturally-Adapted Red-Teaming Across East and Southeast Asian Contexts: A Methodological and Comparative Analysis
Researchers demonstrate that direct translation of English LLM safety benchmarks into Asian languages significantly underestimates risks, with culturally-adapted prompts showing 9.3 percentage points higher attack success rates on average. The study reveals that translation-only approaches fail to capture cultural context, legal frameworks, and social norms critical for valid multilingual AI safety evaluation.