{
  "id": 13590,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19212",
  "title": "When Ethics and Payoffs Diverge: LLM Agents in Morally Charged Social Dilemmas",
  "summary": "arXiv:2505.19212v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in LLMs have enabled their use in complex agentic roles, involving decision-making with humans or other agents, making ethical alignment a critical concern. While prior work has examined LLMs' moral judgment and strategic behavior separately, there is limited understanding of how they act when moral imperatives directly conflict with profit incentives. We introduce \\msimfull (\\msim) to evaluate how LLMs behave in the priso",
  "authors": "Steffen Backmann, David Guzman Piedrahita, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Emanuel Tewolde, Rada Mihalcea, Bernhard Sch\\\"olkopf, Zhijing Jin",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-27T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-27T05:10:06.638Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13590",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19212",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}