Scientists warn that current AI tests reward polite responses rather than real moral reasoning in large language models.

Every day we encounter circumstances we consider wrong: a starving child, a corrupt politician, an unfaithful partner, a fraudulent scientist. These examples highlight several moral issues, including ...

Many scientists are cynical about moral reasoning. They claim that humans do not reason about right and wrong to improve their moral perspectives, they do so to justify themselves to others. Reasoning ...

One of the books I’ve read in the last couple of years that has really stuck with me is Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind.

Individuals with a higher level of moral reasoning skills showed increased gray matter in the areas of the brain implicated in complex social behavior, decision making, and conflict processing as ...

There is too much daylight between the current courses and an explicitly “moral” requirement. The fact that “moral” can be a ...

Pope Saint John Paul II stated that the biggest question before a democratic society is how we live together. And in seeking an answer to this question, one has to ask, “Can a society survive without ...

Viktor Frankl, writing in Man’s Search For Meaning, commented that the “moral moment” is that brief moment between stimulus and response. “In that space is our power to choose our response,” he ...

Sarah Hodge does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Every day we encounter circumstances we consider wrong: a starving child, a corrupt politician, an unfaithful partner, a fraudulent scientist. These examples highlight several moral issues, including ...