Multi-Agent LLMs as Ethics Advocates for AI-Based Systems

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Main Authors: Yamani, Asma, Baslyman, Malak, Ahmed, Moataz
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author Yamani, Asma
Baslyman, Malak
Ahmed, Moataz
author_facet Yamani, Asma
Baslyman, Malak
Ahmed, Moataz
contents Incorporating ethics into the requirement elicitation process is essential for creating ethically aligned systems. Although eliciting manual ethics requirements is effective, it requires diverse input from multiple stakeholders, which can be challenging due to time and resource constraints. Moreover, it is often given a low priority in the requirements elicitation process. This study proposes a framework for generating ethics requirements drafts by introducing an ethics advocate agent in a multi-agent LLM setting. This agent critiques and provides input on ethical issues based on the system description. The proposed framework is evaluated through two case studies from different contexts, demonstrating that it captures the majority of ethics requirements identified by researchers during 30-minute interviews and introduces several additional relevant requirements. However, it also highlights reliability issues in generating ethics requirements, emphasizing the need for human feedback in this sensitive domain. We believe this work can facilitate the broader adoption of ethics in the requirements engineering process, ultimately leading to more ethically aligned products.
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spellingShingle Multi-Agent LLMs as Ethics Advocates for AI-Based Systems
Yamani, Asma
Baslyman, Malak
Ahmed, Moataz
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Incorporating ethics into the requirement elicitation process is essential for creating ethically aligned systems. Although eliciting manual ethics requirements is effective, it requires diverse input from multiple stakeholders, which can be challenging due to time and resource constraints. Moreover, it is often given a low priority in the requirements elicitation process. This study proposes a framework for generating ethics requirements drafts by introducing an ethics advocate agent in a multi-agent LLM setting. This agent critiques and provides input on ethical issues based on the system description. The proposed framework is evaluated through two case studies from different contexts, demonstrating that it captures the majority of ethics requirements identified by researchers during 30-minute interviews and introduces several additional relevant requirements. However, it also highlights reliability issues in generating ethics requirements, emphasizing the need for human feedback in this sensitive domain. We believe this work can facilitate the broader adoption of ethics in the requirements engineering process, ultimately leading to more ethically aligned products.
title Multi-Agent LLMs as Ethics Advocates for AI-Based Systems
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08392