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PublishedApril 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Tension Between Ethical Reasoning and Safety Alignment in LLMs
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arXiv:2509.05367v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model safety alignment predominantly operates on a binary assumption that requests are either safe or unsafe. This classification proves insufficient when models encounter ethical dilemmas, where the capacity to reason through
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