PartyBench Normalizes AI Social Agency

Benchmarking AI 'social competence' (asking models to plan and host social events and scoring them) is emerging as a new evaluation axis. Turning social tasks into standardized tests (PartyBench) pushes companies to optimize cultural curation and gatekeeping with models, accelerating the normalization of AI as organizer, status arbiter, and cultural curator. — If platforms and labs institutionalize social‑event benchmarks, they will change who controls cultural gatekeeping, accelerate automation of hospitality and networking roles, and create new legal and ethical questions about agency and provenance.