Informed AI Regulation: Comparing the Ethical Frameworks of Leading LLM Chatbots Using an Ethics-Based Audit to Assess Moral Reasoning and Normative Values

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With the rise of individual and collaborative networks of autonomous agents, AI is deployed in more key reasoning and decision-making roles.

• For this reason, ethics-based audits play a pivotal role in the rapidly growing fields of AI safety and regulation.
• This paper undertakes an ethics-based audit to probe the 8 leading commercial and open-source Large Language Models including GPT-4.
• We assess explicability and trustworthiness by a) establishing how well different models engage in moral reasoning and b) comparing normative values underlying models as ethical frameworks.