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  1. Can AI systems have free will?

    Sep 14, 2026Christian ListArtificial Intelligence SystemsMoral Reasoning

  2. Refusal Reads Only a Slice of What the Model Knows: Harm-Keyed Routing and Its Exceptions Across Model Families

    Sep 13, 2026Orion Reblitz-RichardsonRefusalsMoral Reasoning

  3. Autonomy, Social Norms, and Alignment: Towards a Developmental Framework for Autonomous Artificial Agents

    Sep 12, 2026Marica Notte, Ludovica Marinucci, Vieri Giuliano SantucciAutonomySocial Norms

  4. From Protocols to Evidence: Bounded Claims for AI in Service of the Common Good

    Sep 10, 2026Nitesh V. Chawla, Paulo BenantiArtificial Intelligence GovernanceGovernance

  5. Tensor Network Moral Graph Recovery of Discrete Probability Distributions

    Sep 8, 2026Á. Troyano Olivas, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Hans H. Brunner +2Causal GraphTensor Networks

  6. Human-like moral judgments conceal divergent motive attributions in large language models

    Sep 7, 2026Xiaoyan Wu, Jean-Claude DreherMoral ReasoningPsychology

  7. Representational alignment yields generalizable safety in language models

    Sep 3, 2026Lingyu Li, Yan Teng, Yingchun Wang +1Large Language Model SafetyAdversarial Evaluation

  8. Caught in the Story: Narrative Captivity in Multi-turn LLMs Conversation

    Sep 3, 2026Yuhe Wu, Guangyu Wang, Yujie Chen +7Multi-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsMoral Reasoning

  9. Less Is Moral: A CHARMing Framework for Moral Foundations Detection in Endorsement Behaviour

    Sep 3, 2026Huixiang Fu, Marian-Andrei RizoiuMoral ReasoningHate Speech

  10. Meta-ethics and AI: exploring the novel meta-ethical questions in the era of AI

    Sep 1, 2026Shang LuEthicsMoral Reasoning

  11. The Assistant's Ideal Self

    Aug 31, 2026Mert YazanMoral ReasoningWelfare

  12. Metanormative Theory for RL-Based Moral Agents

    Aug 8, 2026Aleks Knoks, Marija SlavkovikMoral ReasoningSocial Norms

  13. CORDA: A Benchmark for Hierarchical Harm-Centric Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Aug 8, 2026Siddarth Singh, Victoria Williams, Simon Rosen +6Moral ReasoningAdherence

  14. The Judgment-Consequence Gap: LLM Moral Reasoning in Healthcare Decisions

    Aug 6, 2026Hadi Hosseini, Samarth Khanna, Leona PierceMoral ReasoningHarms

  15. Responsibility in Multi-Agent Sequential Decision-Making: Comparing Human Judgments to Formal Models of Causal Attribution

    Aug 5, 2026Nripsuta Ani Saxena, Stelios Triantafyllou, Goran RadanovićAgent DecisionsHuman Judgment

  16. A Contractualist Argumentation Framework for Moral Decision-Making

    Aug 3, 2026Luis Marcos-Vidal, Giulio Antonio Abbo, Tony BelpaemeMoral ReasoningAbstract Argumentation

  17. Asymmetric Communication: Large Language Models and Language Games

    Jul 30, 2026Enzo FenoglioArtificial Intelligence AlignmentAsymmetric

  18. Beyond Sycophancy: Structured Resistance and Compliance in LLM Moral Reasoning

    Jul 23, 2026Baihui Wang, Bernard KochSycophancyMoral Reasoning

  19. A Unified Moral-Value Dataset for Instruction Tuning

    Jul 23, 2026Zhaohui Zeng, Florian MaiInstruction TuningMoral Reasoning

  20. The Ethics of Autonomous AI Agents for Offensive Security

    Jul 22, 2026Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito, Jasmin WachterArtificial Intelligence SafetyArtificial Intelligence Agents

  21. Don't Want Your LLM to Recommend Nuclear Strike? Try Asking It in Japanese

    Jul 21, 2026Rian TouchentLarge Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Decision-Making

  22. A Geometric Perspective on Stabilizing Value Conflict Resolution

    Jul 20, 2026Saket Reddy, Andy LiuLarge Language Model ReasoningKnowledge Conflicts

  23. Moral Attitudes of Sentient ASI towards Humanity and Implications for AGI Development

    Jul 16, 2026Jean-Paul Van BelleMoral ReasoningHuman Oversight

  24. MET: Theory-Grounded and Culture-Aware Multilingual Moral Reasoning

    Jul 13, 2026Ayoung Lee, Ryan Kwon, Yunxiang Zhang +3Moral ReasoningMultilingual Reasoning

  25. The yes-no bias of large language models reflects answer order and wording, not shifts in moral judgment

    Jul 6, 2026Haonan HuangMoral ReasoningLarge Language Model Decision-Making

  26. Moral Safety in LLMs: Exposing Performative Compliance with Puzzled Cues

    Jun 30, 2026Mohammadamin Shafiei, Shuyue Stella Li, Yulia TsvetkovMoral ReasoningLarge Language Model Safety

  27. Can LLMs Imagine Moral Alternatives Beyond Binary Dilemmas?

    Jun 30, 2026Jongchan Choi, Nari Yang, Sung Soo Park +4Moral ReasoningAlternative

  28. Scalability of Morality: A Particle-Based Numerical Study on the Decoupling of Law and Ethics in Large-Scale Populations

    Jun 25, 2026Amir Arslan Haghrah, Amir Aslan HaghrahMoral ReasoningSocial Dynamics

  29. Narration-of-Thought: Inference-Time Scaffolding for Defeasible Ethical Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Jun 24, 2026Patrick Cooper, Alvaro VelasquezEthicsMoral Reasoning

  30. Same Lesson, Different Story: Cross-Lingual Reconstruction of Cultural Narratives in Large Language Models

    Jun 23, 2026Jory Alshaalan, Haya Albaker, Abeer Aldayel +2Cultural KnowledgeMoral Reasoning

  31. Learning Moral Diversity: Modelling Individual Perspectives in Moral Classification of Texts

    Jun 22, 2026Yi Ren, Lewis Mitchell, Matthew RoughanMoral ReasoningHuman Annotators

  32. Beyond Value Benchmarks: Measuring Value-Structure Alignment in Large Language Models via Symmetric Q-Sorts

    Jun 20, 2026Jingting Zheng, Yuqi Ren, Linhao Yu +2Large Language Model AlignmentMoral Reasoning

  33. Warning labels shift perceptions of sycophantic AI, but not its influence

    Jun 19, 2026Lujain Ibrahim, Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee +4SycophancyArtificial Intelligence Systems

  34. Frame-Conditioned Moral Computation in LLaMA 3.1-8B-Instruct: A Mechanistic Interpretability Audit of Ethical Reasoning

    Jun 13, 2026Ali Dasdan, Manan Shah, W. Russell Neuman +3Moral ReasoningTask Framing

  35. Right or Wrong, Models Comply: Directional Blindness in LLM Moral Judgment

    Jun 12, 2026Jihye Kim, Jeffrey FlaniganMoral ReasoningLarge Language Model Bias

  36. Why Sampling Is Not Choosing: Intentionality, Agency, and Moral Responsibility in Large Language Models

    Jun 11, 2026Joseph KeshetMoral Reasoning

  37. LLMs Can Better Capture Human Judgments--With the Right Prompts

    Jun 10, 2026Danica Dillion, Chen Cecilia Liu, Baihui Wang +5Human JudgmentArtificial Intelligence Alignment

  38. Normative Robustness as a Frontier for Non-Verifiable Reasoning in LLMs

    Jun 10, 2026Elizaveta Tennant, Benjamin Henke, Anita Keshmirian +5Moral ReasoningSycophancy

  39. Are LLMs Bad at Moral Reasoning?

    Jun 10, 2026Menghang Zhu, Seth LazarMoral ReasoningRubrics

  40. When Probing Accuracy Saturates, Fragility Resolves: A Complementary Metric for LLM Pre-Training Analysis

    Jun 9, 2026Orion Reblitz-RichardsonFragilityLarge Language Model Pretraining

  41. Accounting for Context: Shaping Moral Credences for Value Alignment

    Jun 5, 2026Jazon Szabo, Sanjay ModgilMoral ReasoningBehavioral Alignment

  42. Staying with the Uncertainty: Uncertainty-Scaffolding Strategies for Artificial Moral Advisors in LLM-to-LLM Simulated Conversations

    Jun 4, 2026Salvatore Greco, Hainiu Xu, Jacopo Domenicucci +2Moral ReasoningLarge Language Model Uncertainty

  43. When Should We Protect AI? A Precautionary Framework for Consciousness Uncertainty

    Jun 4, 2026Anna MikedaMoral ReasoningMetacognition

  44. Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients

    Jun 2, 2026Carmen Ng, Gjergji KasneciMoral ReasoningLarge Language Model Bias

  45. Do Large Language Models Encode Institutional Experience? Evidence from Cross-Linguistic Moral Reasoning Under Ambiguity

    May 29, 2026Nattavudh PowdthaveeMoral ReasoningEnglish

  46. Every Act Has Its Price: Compressed Moral Composition in Frontier LLMs

    May 29, 2026Weijia Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Yunze Xiao +1Moral ReasoningLarge Language Model Decision-Making

  47. Beyond Binary Moral Judgment: Modeling Ethical Pluralism in AI

    May 27, 2026Aisha Aijaz, Rahul Goel, Arnav Batra +1Moral ReasoningPluralistic Alignment

  48. The Ethics of LLM Sandbox and Persona Dynamics

    May 27, 2026Tim Gebbie, Stewart GebbieEthicsLarge Language Model Safety

  49. Whose Good, Whose Place? The Moral Geography of Agentic AI for Social Good

    May 21, 2026Poli Nemkova, Haeshitha Indukuri, Jaedon CharlesArtificial Intelligence GovernanceMoral Reasoning

  50. More Context, Larger Models, or Moral Knowledge? A Systematic Study of Schwartz Value Detection in Political Texts

    May 21, 2026Víctor Yeste, Paolo RossoSentence-Level ClassificationMoral Reasoning

  51. Towards Context-Invariant Safety Alignment for Large Language Models

    May 20, 2026Yixu Wang, Yang Yao, Xin Wang +4Safety AlignmentLarge Language Model Alignment

  52. An Algebraic Exposition of the Theory of Dyadic Morality

    May 15, 2026Kush R. VarshneyMoral ReasoningAgent Decisions

  53. Persona-Model Collapse in Emergent Misalignment

    May 13, 2026Davi Bastos Costa, Renato VicenteMisalignmentMoral Reasoning

  54. Evaluation Awareness in Language Models Has Limited Effect on Behaviour

    May 7, 2026Amelie Knecht, Lucas Florin, Thilo HagendorffLarge Language Model EvaluationMoral Reasoning

  55. How Does Thinking Mode Change LLM Moral Judgments? A Controlled Instant-vs-Thinking Comparison Across Five Frontier Models

    May 6, 2026Sai Sourabh MadurMoral ReasoningFrontier Models

  56. Where Paths Split: Localized, Calibrated Control of Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

    May 5, 2026Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Gjergji KasneciMoral ReasoningEthics

  57. Moral Sensitivity in LLMs: A Tiered Evaluation of Contextual Bias via Behavioral Profiling and Mechanistic Interpretability

    May 4, 2026Yash Aggarwal, Atmika Gorti, Vinija Jain +3Large Language Model BiasMoral Reasoning

  58. A Cellular Doctrine of Morality: Intrinsic Active Precision and the Mind-Reality Overload Dilemma

    May 2, 2026Ahsan AdeelMoral ReasoningNeurophysiological Correlates

  59. Assert, don't describe: Linguistic features that shift LLM reasoning about animal welfare

    Apr 30, 2026Jasmine Brazilek, Harper DunnLinguisticsLarge Language Model Reasoning

  60. Beyond Categories of Caste: Examining Caste Bias and Morality in Text-to-Image AI Models

    Apr 28, 2026Divyanshu Kumar Singh, Dipto Das, Deepika Rama Subramanian +3Gender BiasGenerative Artificial Intelligence