Position: Evaluations of AI Moral Reasoning Still Miss Half of the Picture

Moving beyond static values to measure how AI applies moral norms in nuanced contexts.

Recent work on evaluating the moral competence of large language models (LLMs) has focused primarily on what we call the moral value problem, i.e., whether model outputs align with human moral values. In contrast, the moral norm problem, i.e., whether models can identify and corr...

ArXiv CS.AI2026-08-18