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SocietyBench: Forecasting Counterfactual Social-World Evolution
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- SocietyBench is a benchmark that measures how well large language models forecast social events by predicting outcomes from anonymized, counterfactual timelines built from real news and social media.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building LLM agents that need to understand and predict real-world social dynamics beyond task completion like bug fixing or browser control.
- Watch out
- Top models score only 75 out of 100 against a 50-point baseline. Performance splits into two independent axes: probability calibration and temporal accuracy, meaning strength in one does not guarantee the other.
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