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Is It Possible to Make Chatbots Virtuous? Investigating a Virtue-Based Design Methodology Applied to LLMs

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Main Authors:	Lad, Matthew P., Conwill, Louisa, Scheirer, Megan Levis
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Human-Computer Interaction
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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