{
  "id": 1090,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13739v1",
  "title": "A Virtuous AI is an Existential Risk",
  "summary": "This paper examines trade-offs between AI safety and well-being relative to (i) one of the most promising methods for finetuning super-capable AIs, 'Constitutional AI', and (ii) one of the most influential approaches to understanding complex ethical decision making and the conditions for the well-being of rational agents, 'Virtue Ethics'. We finetune various models using a 'Virtuous agent' constitution, a 'Subordinate agent' constitution, and a 'Generic agent' constitution, and evaluate them on ",
  "authors": "Guillermo Del Pinal, Youngchan Lee, Min Ohn",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-11T12:38:54.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:59.016Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1090",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13739v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}