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Framing Instability in LLM Ethical Stance: Auditing Negation Sensitivity in Moral Dilemmas

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arXiv:2601. 21433v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models are increasingly consulted on ethically consequential questions, yet the stance a model expresses may not survive a change in framing.

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