8 papers
Frame-Conditioned Moral Computation in LLaMA 3.1-8B-Instruct: A Mechanistic Interpretability Audit of Ethical Reasoning
Ali Dasdan, Manan Shah, W. Russell Neuman +3
Behavioral audits of Large Language Models on moral prompts measure what the model says, not the internal computation producing it. We use Transluce, an AI-driven mechanistic-inter…
Six Llamas: Comparative Religious Ethics Through LoRA-Adapted Language Models
Chad Coleman, W. Russell Neuman, Manan Shah +5
We present Six Llamas, a comparative study examining whether large language models fine-tuned on distinct religious corpora encode systematically different patterns of ethical reas…
The Human Condition as Reflected in Contemporary Large Language Models
W. Russell Neuman
This study seeks to uncover evidence of a latent structure in evolved human culture as it is refracted through contemporary large language models (LLMs). Drawing on parallel respon…
The Third Ambition: Artificial Intelligence and the Science of Human Behavior
W. Russell Neuman, Chad Coleman
Contemporary artificial intelligence research has been organized around two dominant ambitions: productivity, which treats AI systems as tools for accelerating work and economic ou…
"Amazing, They All Lean Left" -- Analyzing the Political Temperaments of Current LLMs
W. Russell Neuman, Chad Coleman, Ali Dasdan +3
Recent studies have revealed a consistent liberal orientation in the ethical and political responses generated by most commercial large language models (LLMs), yet the underlying c…
The Convergent Ethics of AI? Analyzing Moral Foundation Priorities in Large Language Models with a Multi-Framework Approach
Chad Coleman, W. Russell Neuman, Ali Dasdan +2
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in consequential decision-making contexts, systematically assessing their ethical reasoning capabilities becomes a critica…