Ethical Reasoning over Moral Alignment: A Case and Framework for In-Context Ethical Policies in LLMs
Abhinav Sukumar Rao, Aditi Khandelwal, Kumar Tanmay, Utkarsh Agarwal, Monojit Choudhury
Abstract
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 provided with an ethical policy, an LLM should be capable of making decisions that are ethically consistent to the policy. We develop a framework that integrates moral dilemmas with moral principles pertaining to different foramlisms of normative ethics, and at different levels of abstractions. Initial experiments with GPT-x models shows that while GPT-4 is a nearly perfect ethical reasoner, the models still have bias towards the moral values of Western and English speaking societies.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
rao2023ethical,
title={Ethical Reasoning over Moral Alignment: A Case and Framework for In-Context Ethical Policies in {LLM}s},
author={Abhinav Sukumar Rao and Aditi Khandelwal and Kumar Tanmay and Utkarsh Agarwal and Monojit Choudhury},
booktitle={The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=9qydIw5ux1}
}