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Aristotelian Virtue Profiling of LLMs through Ethical Dilemmas

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arXiv:2606. 28683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often face ethical tradeoffs in which several responses may be defensible but express different priorities, such as fairness, honesty, courage, or restraint.

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