Accounting for Context: Shaping Moral Credences for Value Alignment
Ensuring that agent behaviours are aligned with human moral values inevitably raises the problem of how to account for the plurality of moral perspectives that societies -- and even individuals -- typically adopt. Work on moral uncertainty proposes mechanisms to fairly and democratically aggregate evaluations of actions across different moral theories. However, this paper argues that one needs to account for contextual factors when aggregating moral evaluations. For example, consequentialist per
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Published: 5 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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