Can LLMs Imagine Moral Alternatives Beyond Binary Dilemmas?
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arXiv:2606.31213v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLMs increasingly serve as moral advisors and agents, they must address conflicts between competing values. Yet prior work on moral dilemmas overlooks a central aspect of human moral cognition: imagining alternatives beyond the given options. We introduce MoralAltDataset, comprising 307 Advisor and AI-facing Agent dilemmas augmented with compromise and reframed alternatives. We compare human and LLM judgments in binary and four-option settings. Across human participants and 15 LLMs, aggregate moral choice distributions differ substan
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.31213v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLMs increasingly serve as moral advisors and agents, they must address conflicts between competing values.
- Yet prior work on moral dilemmas overlooks a central aspect of human moral cognition: imagining alternatives beyond the given options.
- We introduce MoralAltDataset, comprising 307 Advisor and AI-facing Agent dilemmas augmented with compromise and reframed alternatives.
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