Towards Answering Open-ended Ethical Quandary Questions [article]

Yejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Tiezheng Yu, Leila Khalatbari, Yan Xu, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Dan Su, Bryan Wilie, Romain Barraud, Elham J. Barezi, Andrea Madotto, Hayden Kee (+1 others)
2023 arXiv   pre-print
Considerable advancements have been made in various NLP tasks based on the impressive power of large language models (LLMs) and many NLP applications are deployed in our daily lives. In this work, we challenge the capability of LLMs with the new task of Ethical Quandary Generative Question Answering. Ethical quandary questions are more challenging to address because multiple conflicting answers may exist to a single quandary. We explore the current capability of LLMs in providing an answer with
more » ... a deliberative exchange of different perspectives to an ethical quandary, in the approach of Socratic philosophy, instead of providing a closed answer like an oracle. We propose a model that searches for different ethical principles applicable to the ethical quandary and generates an answer conditioned on the chosen principles through prompt-based few-shot learning. We also discuss the remaining challenges and ethical issues involved in this task and suggest the direction toward developing responsible NLP systems by incorporating human values explicitly.
arXiv:2205.05989v3 fatcat:44dvsapyavambhgr33cc5zubia