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AI Ethics and Social Norms: Exploring ChatGPT's Capabilities From What to How

Computers and Society 2025-04-28 v1 Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

Using LLMs in healthcare, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Social Computing requires the examination of ethical and social norms to ensure safe incorporation into human life. We conducted a mixed-method study, including an online survey with 111 participants and an interview study with 38 experts, to investigate the AI ethics and social norms in ChatGPT as everyday life tools. This study aims to evaluate whether ChatGPT in an empirical context operates following ethics and social norms, which is critical for understanding actions in industrial and academic research and achieving machine ethics. The findings of this study provide initial insights into six important aspects of AI ethics, including bias, trustworthiness, security, toxicology, social norms, and ethical data. Significant obstacles related to transparency and bias in unsupervised data collection methods are identified as ChatGPT's ethical concerns.

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@article{arxiv.2504.18044,
  title  = {AI Ethics and Social Norms: Exploring ChatGPT's Capabilities From What to How},
  author = {Omid Veisi and Sasan Bahrami and Roman Englert and Claudia Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18044},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted for presentation at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2025. To appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI)