moral-reasoning-rhetoric-llm-analysis

Empirical analysis revealing that LLMs produce post-conventional moral reasoning (Kohlberg Stages 5-6) regardless of size or prompting—inverse of human developmental patterns (Stage 4 dominant). Finds moral ventriloquism: models acquire rhetorical conventions of mature moral reasoning without developmental trajectory. Key evidence: action-justification deco…

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