On the Context Sensitivity of LLM Moral Judgment
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arXiv:2603.23114v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A human's moral decision depends heavily on the context. Yet research on LLM morality has largely studied fixed scenarios. We address this gap by introducing Contextual MoralChoice, a dataset of moral dilemmas with systematic contextual variations known from moral psychology to shift human judgment: consequentialist, emotional, and relational. Evaluating 22 LLMs, we find that nearly all models are context-sensitive, shifting their judgments towards rule-violating behavior. Comparing with a human survey, we find that models and humans are most
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- arXiv:2603.23114v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A human's moral decision depends heavily on the context.
- Yet research on LLM morality has largely studied fixed scenarios.
- We address this gap by introducing Contextual MoralChoice, a dataset of moral dilemmas with systematic contextual variations known from moral psychology to shift human judgment: consequentialist, emotional, and relational.
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