Paper Examines Conflict Between Professional and General Ethics in GenAI
mircomusolesi · x · 2026-09-01
Omri Asscher and Mirco Musolesi released a preprint examining how AI systems navigate conflicting ethical objectives in law, medicine, and translation.
Key Insights:
- The Conflict: Current AI alignment research often assumes a universal set of ethical values. However, in specific professional applications, professional ethics (e.g., confidentiality in law, non-maleficence in medicine) often dominate, creating a gap between theory and practice.
- Hierarchical Framework: The paper conceptualizes professional ethics as having a hierarchical relationship with general ethics, exploring how they reach an equilibrium in conflicting situational contexts.
- Empirical Assessment & Intervention: The authors propose a framework to systematically assess AI models' ethical preferences by testing them across nuanced scenarios, and discuss methods to intervene and shift models' favored ethics in professional practice.
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