UbuntuGuard: A Culturally-Grounded Policy Benchmark for Equitable AI Safety in African Languages

In three linesUbuntuGuard is the first policy-based safety benchmark for African languages. Built from 155 domain experts, it evaluates 15 models (7 general-purpose LLMs, 8 guardian models) across three variants. Findings show English-centric benchmarks overestimate real-world multilingual safety and cross-lingual transfer remains insufficient.

Summary generated by Claude — human-verified