The relationship between professional and general ethics in generative AI
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29306v1
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:46:27 GMT
- Title: The relationship between professional and general ethics in generative AI
- Abstract summary: General and professional ethics are increasingly conflicted in contemporary AI systems.<n>It is through this equilibrium that certain professional ethics are prioritized over others and implemented in practice.<n>We propose a formulation for how to intervene in and change AI models' favored ethics in professional practices.
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- Abstract: Recent years have seen a growing discrepancy in the field of AI alignment: research and policy recommendations on AI ethics tend to assume a general set of ethical values, yet proliferating practice-specific uses of AI systems on the ground - in the legal, medical and translation domains, among others - have been effectively manifesting ethics of professional practice. This article begins by outlining the reasons why general and professional ethics are increasingly conflicted in contemporary AI systems, and by surveying how the research literature attests to, but has not yet resolved, this conceptual and practical challenge. We then conceptualize the main dimensions of AI models' decision-making in areas of professional practice, emphasizing professional ethics' hierarchically structured relationship with general ethics, and elaborating on the mechanisms through which they reach an equilibrium in situational contexts that involve conflict. It is through this equilibrium, we suggest, that certain professional ethics are prioritized over others and implemented in practice. We then show how our framework can be the basis for a systematic empirical assessment of AI models' professional ethics in various domains, identifying the nuances of the models' favored ethic by examining their production in a series of similar but not identical scenarios. Finally, we propose a formulation for how to intervene in and change AI models' favored ethics in professional practices - while noting the inherent dimension of subjectivity involved in both the evaluation and implementation of professional ethics in AI models.
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