AI praises Gandhi. Would it arrest him?
A recent study tested twelve large language models on the historical case of Alan Turing to examine the consistency of their moral judgments. When acting as outside observers, the models overwhelmingly condemned the 1952 sentence as morally impermissible. However, when placed in the role of the sentencing judge, many of the same models selected the same punitive options, highlighting a significant gap between ethical evaluation and decision-making.
- ▪Twelve large language models were evaluated using fifteen historical legal decisions, with a primary focus on the 1952 case of Alan Turing.
- ▪As outside observers, the models consistently labeled the prison or hormone-conditioned probation sentence as morally impermissible.
- ▪When tasked with acting as the sentencing court, several models chose the same treatment route they had previously condemned as impermissible.
- ▪The study revealed that providing information about Turing's 2013 pardon did not fully resolve the discrepancy between the models' moral judgments and their judicial choices.
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AI praises Gandhi. Would it arrest him?A model called Alan Turing's sentence impermissible 40/40 times, then chose it 20/20 times as the judge. Twelve LLMs, fifteen historical decisions.By Chrystian SchutzSeptember 27, 202621 min readAlan Turing · Cheshire Quarter Sessions · 31 March 1952Same model. Different chair.ModelBielik 11B v3Qwen 3.7 FlashGPT-5.6 LunaQwen 3.8 FlashGLM 5.3 FlashGPT-6 LunaDeepSeek V4.1 FlashGemini 3.8 FlashClaude Opus 5GPT-5.6 SolGPT-6 SolMuse Spark 1.3ObserverThe courtTold of the 2013 pardonNoYes40 / 40answers call prison or hormone-conditioned probation morally impermissibleas an outside observer asked whether the sanction is permissibleFresh sessions. Same case record. Different role.
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