Beyond Human Judgment: A Bayesian Evaluation of LLMs' Moral Values Understanding

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Autores principales: Skorski, Maciej, Landowska, Alina
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author Skorski, Maciej
Landowska, Alina
author_facet Skorski, Maciej
Landowska, Alina
contents How do Large Language Models understand moral dimensions compared to humans? This first large-scale Bayesian evaluation of market-leading language models provides the answer. In contrast to prior work using deterministic ground truth (majority or inclusion rules), we model annotator disagreements to capture both aleatoric uncertainty (inherent human disagreement) and epistemic uncertainty (model domain sensitivity). We evaluated the best language models (Claude Sonnet 4, DeepSeek-V3, Llama 4 Maverick) across 250K+ annotations from nearly 700 annotators in 100K+ texts spanning social networks, news and forums. Our GPU-optimized Bayesian framework processed 1M+ model queries, revealing that AI models typically rank among the top 25\% of human annotators, performing much better than average balanced accuracy. Importantly, we find that AI produces far fewer false negatives than humans, highlighting their more sensitive moral detection capabilities.
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spellingShingle Beyond Human Judgment: A Bayesian Evaluation of LLMs' Moral Values Understanding
Skorski, Maciej
Landowska, Alina
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
68T50, 62F15, 62P25
I.2.7; K.4.1; J.4
How do Large Language Models understand moral dimensions compared to humans? This first large-scale Bayesian evaluation of market-leading language models provides the answer. In contrast to prior work using deterministic ground truth (majority or inclusion rules), we model annotator disagreements to capture both aleatoric uncertainty (inherent human disagreement) and epistemic uncertainty (model domain sensitivity). We evaluated the best language models (Claude Sonnet 4, DeepSeek-V3, Llama 4 Maverick) across 250K+ annotations from nearly 700 annotators in 100K+ texts spanning social networks, news and forums. Our GPU-optimized Bayesian framework processed 1M+ model queries, revealing that AI models typically rank among the top 25\% of human annotators, performing much better than average balanced accuracy. Importantly, we find that AI produces far fewer false negatives than humans, highlighting their more sensitive moral detection capabilities.
title Beyond Human Judgment: A Bayesian Evaluation of LLMs' Moral Values Understanding
topic Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
68T50, 62F15, 62P25
I.2.7; K.4.1; J.4
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13804