{
  "id": 17011,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05583",
  "title": "The Judgment-Consequence Gap: LLM Moral Reasoning in Healthcare Decisions",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.05583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) enter high-stakes domains such as healthcare, understanding their moral reasoning becomes essential. Decisions about scarce medical resources often hinge on judgments of responsibility, particularly when patients' own actions contribute to illness. We investigate how LLMs reason about responsibility and its consequences, tracing their judgments across successive levels, from the behavior, to the resulting illness, to",
  "authors": "Hadi Hosseini, Samarth Khanna, Leona Pierce",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "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/17011",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05583",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}