World Values Survey

The World Values Survey appears in A hawk who flew on political winds: Lindsey Graham as the cross-national survey instrument used to compare frontier AI model answers with human cultural patterns. The episode says the survey has tracked beliefs and moods since 1981 across more than 100 countries.

In the source, the survey’s value is comparative. It maps societies from traditional to secular and from survival-oriented to self-expression-oriented, giving AI Model Value Surveying a way to say that many AI models resemble rich-country, secular, self-expression-oriented societies rather than being neutral or placeless.

Connections

• Sondre Solstad - Economist participant explaining the survey experiment.
• AI Model Value Surveying - method that applies the survey to AI models.
• Language-Dependent AI Bias - related question of how language and training corpus shape answers.
• AI Advice Moral Outsourcing - downstream reason model values matter.