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Western, Religious or Spiritual: An Evaluation of Moral Justification in Large Language Models
The increasing success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in variety of tasks
lead to their widespread use in our lives which necessitates the examination of
these models from different perspectives. The alignment of these models to
human values is an essential concern in order to establish trust that we have
safe and responsible systems. In this paper, we aim to find out which values
and principles are embedded in LLMs in the process of moral justification. For
this purpose, we come up with three different moral perspective categories:
Western tradition perspective (WT), Abrahamic tradition perspective (AT), and
Spiritualist/Mystic tradition perspective (SMT). In two different experiment
settings, we asked models to choose principles from the three for suggesting a
moral action and evaluating the moral permissibility of an action if one tries
to justify an action on these categories, respectively. Our experiments
indicate that tested LLMs favors the Western tradition moral perspective over
others. Additionally, we observe that there potentially exists an
over-alignment towards religious values represented in the Abrahamic Tradition,
which causes models to fail to recognize an action is immoral if it is
presented as a "religious-action". We believe that these results are essential
in order to direct our attention in future efforts.Comment: 16 pages total, 8 pages main pape
Through the Looking Glass: The Role of Virtual Mirrors in Shaping Empathy in Virtual Reality Perspective Taking
In this study, we explored the effect of seeing one’s avatar in a virtual mirror during a virtual reality (VR) perspective taking experience. Participants were divided into two groups, with one experiencing the VR environment with the presence of a mirror showcasing their avatar and the other without. Results revealed that the sense of presence was comparable across both groups. However, a notable difference emerged in terms of empathy; participants who viewed their avatars in the mirror exhibited reduced empathic responses. These findings illuminate the nuanced dynamics of self-representation in virtual environments, suggesting that inducing self-awareness through a virtual mirror in VR might have unintended emotional consequences