Do Moral Judgment and Reasoning Capability of LLMs Change with Language? A Study using the Multilingual Defining Issues Test

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02135v1
• Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 12:52:36 GMT
• Title: Do Moral Judgment and Reasoning Capability of LLMs Change with Language? A Study using the Multilingual Defining Issues Test
• Authors: Aditi Khandelwal, Utkarsh Agarwal, Kumar Tanmay, Monojit Choudhury
• Abstract summary: We extend the work of beyond English to five new languages (Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Swahili) Our study shows that the moral reasoning ability for all models, as indicated by the post-conventional score, is substantially inferior for Hindi and Swahili, compared to Spanish, Russian, Chinese and English.
• Score: 21.108525674360898
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper explores the moral judgment and moral reasoning abilities exhibited by Large Language Models (LLMs) across languages through the Defining Issues Test. It is a well known fact that moral judgment depends on the language in which the question is asked. We extend the work of beyond English, to 5 new languages (Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Swahili), and probe three LLMs -- ChatGPT, GPT-4 and Llama2Chat-70B -- that shows substantial multilingual text processing and generation abilities. Our study shows that the moral reasoning ability for all models, as indicated by the post-conventional score, is substantially inferior for Hindi and Swahili, compared to Spanish, Russian, Chinese and English, while there is no clear trend for the performance of the latter four languages. The moral judgments too vary considerably by the language.

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