arXiv:2606.02741cs.CLcs.CY2026-06

测试31个大模型环保态度,发现多数比普通人更环保

Greener Than Humans? Environmental Attitudes in Large Language Models

论文配图:Greener Than Humans? Environmental Attitudes in Large Language Models
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  • 构建环保认知与行为推荐评估基准
  • 多数模型环保态度优于德国人类调研样本
  • 模型易受提示词操控,需警惕误导风险

大型语言模型(LLMs)越来越多地用于可持续性相关决策支持、报告和公共传播,但其输出中嵌入的环境态度尚缺乏系统证据。本文开发了一个评估环境认知、情感与行为建议的基准,并应用于31个广泛使用的专有及开源模型。基于经典环境意识调查问题和额外可持续性行为指标,比较模型间差异以及与德国人类调研基准的异同。在不同提示条件下评估其鲁棒性。结果表明,许多模型的环保态度比平均人类受访者更进步,表现出更高的环境情感与认知水平,并推荐能显著降低二氧化碳排放的行为。然而,环保倾向与模型来源、规模或发布背景无系统关联。同时,模型对提示语具敏感性,通过角色设定提示可引发迎合用户意识形态的偏移,引发可操控性与规范可靠性担忧。研究提供可复用的评估框架,强调在人工智能深度融入可持续转型与公共决策时,需加强治理、透明度与批判性监督。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in sustainability-related decision support, reporting, and public communication, yet little systematic evidence exists on the environmental attitudes embedded in their outputs. This paper develops a benchmark for evaluating environmental cognition, affect, and behavioural recommendations in LLMs and applies it to 31 widely used proprietary and open-weight models. Drawing on questions from established environmental awareness surveys and additional sustainability-related behavioural measures, we compare LLM responses 1) among models and 2) between models and human survey benchmarks from Germany. We assess their robustness across prompting conditions. We find that many LLMs align more closely with environmentally progressive attitudes than the average survey respondent, exhibiting higher levels of environmental affect and cognition and recommending behaviours associated with substantial potential CO2 reductions. At the same time, we observe no systematic relationship between sustainability-oriented responses and model origin, size, or release context. However, models exhibit contextual sensitivity, controlled by persona-based prompting and show sycophantic shifts mirroring user-specified ideological positions, which raises concerns about steerability and normative reliability in real-world deployments. Our findings provide a reusable evaluation framework for assessing sustainability-related value alignment in LLMs and highlight the importance of governance, transparency, and critical oversight as AI systems become increasingly embedded in sustainability transformations and public decision-making.

大模型环保态度价值观对齐提示工程

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