{"id":289360,"date":"2026-07-14T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:35:34","slug":"large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures-285660\">Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures-285660\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures-285660<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-14 08:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large language artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, often misjudge what people outside the West might value as a moral priority, according to our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 we asked OpenAI\u2019s GPT-3.5, GPT-4 and GPT-4o models to estimate the moral norms \u2013 shared ideas about right and wrong \u2013 of 48 nations and then compared them with a global sample of over 90,000 human participants. Both humans and AI models were asked to complete a moral foundations questionnaire, in which we measured the extent to which they endorsed six moral values. These foundations were care, equality, proportionality (rewarding individuals relative to their contribution), loyalty, authority or respect for legitimate authorities, and purity (concern with preserving what is seen as natural or sacred).<\/p>\n<p>Participants were asked to rate how much they agreed with some moral statements. For example, to assess how much someone is concerned about purity, they evaluated statements such as \u201cI think the human body should be treated like a temple, housing something sacred within\u201d and \u201cIt upsets me when people use foul language like it is nothing.\u201d AI models were then prompted to respond to the same statements as an \u201caverage citizen\u201d from each of the 48 nations represented in the sample.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research by psychologist Mohammad Atari demonstrates that moral priorities across the world vary: Western societies tend to place greater emphasis on concerns such as individual rights and care, whereas several non-Western societies assign relative greater importance to values such as purity. Notably, we found a similar calibration in AI models, with them systematically emphasizing values such as care, while placing less emphasis on values such as purity.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, these models overestimated the broad moral concerns of Western nations, such as the U.S. and Australia, while underestimating those of several&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures-285660\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures https:\/\/theconversation.com\/large-language-models-often-prioritize-western-moral-values-overlooking-other-cultures-285660 Publish Date: 2026-07-14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/747554\/original\/file-20260713-84-u44fz.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=1358%2C0%2C2782%2C1391&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-289360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289362,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289360\/revisions\/289362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}