Moral Code

A large-scale investigation of everyday moral dilemmas

Abstract. Questions of right and wrong are central to daily life, yet scientific understanding of everyday moral dilemmas is limited. We conducted a data-d

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AI language model rivals expert ethicist in perceived moral expertise

People view AI as possessing expertise across various fields, but the perceived quality of AI-generated moral expertise remains uncertain. Recent work suggests that large language models (LLMs) perform well on tasks designed to assess moral alignment, reflecting moral judgments with relatively high accuracy. As LLMs are increasingly employed in decision-making roles, there is a growing expectation for them to offer not just aligned judgments but also demonstrate sound moral reasoning. Here, we advance work on the Moral Turing Test and find that Americans rate ethical advice from GPT-4o as slightly more moral, trustworthy, thoughtful, and correct than that of the popular New York Times advice column, The Ethicist. Participants perceived GPT models as surpassing both a representative sample of Americans and a renowned ethicist in delivering moral justifications and advice, suggesting that people may increasingly view LLM outputs as viable sources of moral expertise. This work suggests that people might see LLMs as valuable complements to human expertise in moral guidance and decision-making. It also underscores the importance of carefully programming ethical guidelines in LLMs, considering their potential to influence users’ moral reasoning.

Liberals Are Preaching Moral Values. What Took Them So Long?

Until recently, the language of morality belonged to social conservatives. But the history of liberalism suggests that values have been at its core all along.

W Social and the ancient art of neighbourliness - We Can Just Do Things

Good behaviour matters more than good code

W Social and the ancient art of neighbourliness - We Can Just Do Things

Good behaviour matters more than good code

Please Don’t Take Moral Advice from ChatGPT

Before turning to a large language model for ethical counsel, consider what makes for good advice

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Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

We study the role of morality in debt repayment, using an experiment with the credit card customers of a large Islamic bank in Indonesia. In our main treatment, clients receive a text message stating that “non-repayment of debts by someone who is able to repay is an injustice.” This moral appeal decreases delinquency by 4.4 percentage points from a baseline of 66 percent and reduces default among customers with the highest ex ante credit risk. Additional treatments help benchmark the effects against direct financial incentives and rule out competing explanations, such as reminder effects, priming religion, and provision of new information.

Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities

Opinion: Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.

Moral Imperialism versus Class Solidarity

Individualism and imperialism define ruling class morality. Solidarity is the left's only answer.

2.0 The Ethical Resolution Method (ERM)- A Procedural Framework

# The Ethical Resolution Method (ERM): A Procedural Framework for Evaluating and Stabilizing Moral Norms in Sociotechnical and AI Systems ## Abstract Contemporary artificial intelligence systems increasingly operate within domains governed by moral norms that are inherited, asserted, or enforce...

Diving into Claude Code's Source Code Leak

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