Towards Benchmarking Situational Awareness of Large Language Models Comprehensive Benchmark, Evaluation and Analysis

Situational awareness refers to the capacity to perceive and comprehend the present context and anticipate forthcoming events, which plays a critical role in aiding decision-making, anticipating potential issues, and adapting to dynamic circumstances.Nevertheless, the situational awareness capabilities of large language models have not yet been comprehensively assessed.To address this, we propose SA-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark that covers three tiers of situational awareness capabilities, covering environment perception, situation comprehension and future projection.SA-Bench provides a comprehensive evaluation to explore the situational awareness capabilities of LLMs.We conduct extensive experiments on advanced LLMs, including GPT-4, LLaMA3, Qwen1.5, among others.Our experimental results indicate that even SOTA LLMs still exhibit substantial capability gaps compared to humans.In addition, we thoroughly analyze and examine the challenges encountered by LLMs across various tasks, as well as emphasize the deficiencies they confront.We hope SA-Bench will foster research within the field of situational awareness.