New Results of State-of-the-art LLMs on 4 Political Orientation Tests

One model appears closer to the center than the rest

This is a brief update on how the latest state-of-the-art LLMs perform on four popular political orientation tests. I previously published a detailed analysis on this topic, but that work is now over a year old, and the field has evolved rapidly since then.

To the point: State-of-the-art LLMs continue to show a left-of-center political leaning, as measured by various political orientation tests.

However, Grok-3 appears to be closer to the political center on average. This becomes more evident when averaging each model’s results across all four tests.

It’s important to note that political orientation tests are just one way to explore the political preferences of LLMs. In earlier work (summarized here), I’ve discussed how other methods provide valuable, complementary insights. Taken together, these approaches likely offer a more complete view of the political tendencies encoded in LLMs.