Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition

S Levine, N Chater, JB Tenenbaum… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is widely agreed upon that morality guides people with conflicting interests towards
agreements of mutual benefit. We therefore might expect numerous proposals for organizing …

ClarifyDelphi: Reinforced clarification questions with defeasibility rewards for social and moral situations

V Pyatkin, JD Hwang, V Srikumar, X Lu, L Jiang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Context is everything, even in commonsense moral reasoning. Changing contexts can flip
the moral judgment of an action;" Lying to a friend" is wrong in general, but may be morally …

When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data

E Awad, S Levine, A Loreggia, N Mattei… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2024 - Springer
Constraining the actions of AI systems is one promising way to ensure that these systems
behave in a way that is morally acceptable to humans. But constraints alone come with …

When it is not out of line to get out of line: The role of universalization and outcome-based reasoning in rule-breaking judgments

How do we know when it's OK to break moral rules? We propose that—alongside well-
studied outcome-based measures of welfare and harm—people sometimes use …

What Makes it Ok to Set a Fire? Iterative Self-distillation of Contexts and Rationales for Disambiguating Defeasible Social and Moral Situations

K Rao, L Jiang, V Pyatkin, Y Gu, N Tandon… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Moral or ethical judgments rely heavily on the specific contexts in which they occur.
Understanding varying shades of defeasible contextualizations (ie, additional information …

Understanding rule enforcement using drift diffusion models

N Engelmann, IR Hannikainen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
Since their inception, drift diffusion models have been applied across a wide range of
disciplines within psychology to uncover the mental processes that underlie perception …