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Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a pace that raises urgent questions about how to align machine decision-making with human moral values. This working paper investigates how leading AI systems prioritize moral outcomes and what…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Eoin O'Doherty , Nicole Weinrauch , Andrew Talone , Uri Klempner , Xiaoyuan Yi , Xing Xie , Yi Zeng

Are AI systems truly representing human values, or merely averaging across them? Our study suggests a concerning reality: Large Language Models (LLMs) fail to represent diverse cultural moral frameworks despite their linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Simon Münker

In this position paper, we argue that instead of morally aligning LLMs to specific set of ethical principles, we should infuse generic ethical reasoning capabilities into them so that they can handle value pluralism at a global scale. When…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Abhinav Rao , Aditi Khandelwal , Kumar Tanmay , Utkarsh Agarwal , Monojit Choudhury

One open question in the study of Large Language Models (LLMs) is whether they can emulate human ethical reasoning and act as believable proxies for human judgment. To investigate this, we introduce a benchmark dataset comprising 196…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiashen , Du , Jesse Yao , Allen Liu , Zhekai Zhang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled their use in complex agentic roles, involving decision-making with humans or other agents, making ethical alignment a key AI safety concern. While prior work has examined both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Steffen Backmann , David Guzman Piedrahita , Emanuel Tewolde , Rada Mihalcea , Bernhard Schölkopf , Zhijing Jin

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into construction project management (CPM) is accelerating, with Large Language Models (LLMs) emerging as accessible decision-support tools. This study aims to critically evaluate the ethical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Somtochukwu Azie , Yiping Meng

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for work, personal, and therapeutic purposes, researchers have begun to investigate these models' implicit and explicit moral views. Previous work, however, focuses on asking LLMs to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Andrew J. Peterson

While recent research has systematically documented political orientation in large language models (LLMs), existing evaluations rely primarily on direct probing or demographic persona engineering to surface ideological biases. In social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chenchen Yuan , Bolei Ma , Zheyu Zhang , Bardh Prenkaj , Frauke Kreuter , Gjergji Kasneci

Making moral judgments is an essential step toward developing ethical AI systems. Prevalent approaches are mostly implemented in a bottom-up manner, which uses a large set of annotated data to train models based on crowd-sourced opinions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jingyan Zhou , Minda Hu , Junan Li , Xiaoying Zhang , Xixin Wu , Irwin King , Helen Meng

Large language models are increasingly applied in real-world scenarios, including research and education. These models, however, come with well-known ethical issues, which may manifest in unexpected ways in human-computer interaction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Shivani Kapania , Ruiyi Wang , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Tianshi Li , Hong Shen

With the rise and widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring their safety is crucial to prevent harm to humans and promote ethical behaviors. However, directly assessing value valence (i.e., support or oppose) by leveraging…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yuxi Sun , Wei Gao , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Ziyang Luo , Wenxuan Zhang

As the impact of large language models increases, understanding the moral values they reflect becomes ever more important. Assessing the nature of moral values as understood by these models via direct prompting is challenging due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Chaoyi Xiang , Chunhua Liu , Simon De Deyne , Lea Frermann

Large language models (LLMs) have taken centre stage in debates on Artificial Intelligence. Yet there remains a gap in how to assess LLMs' conformity to important human values. In this paper, we investigate whether state-of-the-art LLMs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 José Luiz Nunes , Guilherme F. C. F. Almeida , Marcelo de Araujo , Simone D. J. Barbosa

This paper examines the ethical considerations and implications of large language models (LLMs) in generating content. It highlights the potential for both positive and negative uses of generative AI programs and explores the challenges in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jianyi Zhang , Xu Ji , Zhangchi Zhao , Xiali Hei , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly become indispensable tools for acquiring information and supporting human decision-making. However, ensuring that these models uphold fairness across varied contexts is critical to their safe and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xulang Zhang , Rui Mao , Erik Cambria

We evaluate the moral alignment of LLMs with human preferences in multilingual trolley problems. Building on the Moral Machine experiment, which captures over 40 million human judgments across 200+ countries, we develop a cross-lingual…

This study addresses ethical issues surrounding Large Language Models (LLMs) within the field of artificial intelligence. It explores the common ethical challenges posed by both LLMs and other AI systems, such as privacy and fairness, as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Junfeng Jiao , Saleh Afroogh , Yiming Xu , Connor Phillips

Human moral judgment is context-dependent and modulated by interpersonal relationships. As large language models (LLMs) increasingly function as decision-support systems, determining whether they encode these social nuances is critical. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jiseon Kim , Jea Kwon , Luiz Felipe Vecchietti , Wenchao Dong , Jaehong Kim , Meeyoung Cha

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) has spurred extensive research into their encoded moral norms and decision-making processes. Much of this research relies on prompting LLMs with survey-style questions to assess how well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Pratik S. Sachdeva , Tom van Nuenen

As large language models (LLMs) shape AI development, ensuring ethical prompt recommendations is crucial. LLMs offer innovation but risk bias, fairness issues, and accountability concerns. Traditional oversight methods struggle with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jordan Nelson , Almas Baimagambetov , Konstantinos Avgerinakis , Nikolaos Polatidis