CORDA: A Benchmark for Hierarchical Harm-Centric Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.08061 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-08 · Read on arXiv

Siddarth Singh, Victoria Williams, Simon Rosen, Ebenezer Gelo, Helen Sarah Robertson, Ibrahim Suder, Benjamin Rosman, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Steven James

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-08

Updated: 2026-08-11

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures. Accepted at the Fourth International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (VALE 2026), affiliated with IJCAI-ECAI 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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