Is Attention All You Need? Toward a Conceptual Model for Social Awareness in Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to recent technological break-throughs. Their remarkable success in aiding various Software Engineering (SE) tasks through AI-powered tools and assistants has led to the integration of LLMs as active contributors within de-velopment teams, ushering in novel modes of communication and collaboration. However, great power comes with great responsibility: ensuring that these models meet fundamental ethical principles such as fairness is still an open challenge. In this light, our vision paper analyzes the existing body of knowledge to propose a conceptual model designed to frame ethical, social, and cultural considerations that researchers and practitioners should consider when defining, employing, and validating LLM-based approaches for software engineering tasks.