Ethical Reasoning and Moral Value Alignment of LLMs Depend on the Language we Prompt them in

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18460v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:42:27 GMT
• Title: Ethical Reasoning and Moral Value Alignment of LLMs Depend on the Language we Prompt them in
• Authors: Utkarsh Agarwal, Kumar Tanmay, Aditi Khandelwal, Monojit Choudhury,
• Abstract summary: This paper explores how three prominent LLMs -- GPT-4, ChatGPT, and Llama2-70B-Chat -- perform ethical reasoning in different languages. We experiment with six languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, and Swahili. We find that GPT-4 is the most consistent and unbiased ethical reasoner across languages, while ChatGPT and Llama2-70B-Chat show significant moral value bias when we move to languages other than English.
• Score: 19.675262411557235
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Ethical reasoning is a crucial skill for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, moral values are not universal, but rather influenced by language and culture. This paper explores how three prominent LLMs -- GPT-4, ChatGPT, and Llama2-70B-Chat -- perform ethical reasoning in different languages and if their moral judgement depend on the language in which they are prompted. We extend the study of ethical reasoning of LLMs by Rao et al. (2023) to a multilingual setup following their framework of probing LLMs with ethical dilemmas and policies from three branches of normative ethics: deontology, virtue, and consequentialism. We experiment with six languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, and Swahili. We find that GPT-4 is the most consistent and unbiased ethical reasoner across languages, while ChatGPT and Llama2-70B-Chat show significant moral value bias when we move to languages other than English. Interestingly, the nature of this bias significantly vary across languages for all LLMs, including GPT-4.

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