What ethical concerns, if any, do LLM researchers have? We introduce EthiCon, a corpus of 1,580 ethical concern statements extracted from scientific papers published in the ACL Anthology. We extract ethical concern keywords from the statements and show promising results in automating the concern identification process. Through a survey, we compare the ethical concerns of the corpus to the concerns listed by the general public and professionals in the field. Finally, we compare our retrieved ethical concerns with existing taxonomies pointing to gaps and future research directions.
@article{arxiv.2411.07845,
title = {Ethical Concern Identification in NLP: A Corpus of ACL Anthology Ethics Statements},
author = {Antonia Karamolegkou and Sandrine Schiller Hansen and Ariadni Christopoulou and Filippos Stamatiou and Anne Lauscher and Anders Søgaard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.07845},
year = {2024}
}