A Checks-and-Balances Framework for Context-Aware Ethical AI Alignment
This addresses ethical alignment for AI systems, potentially reducing harmful outputs, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing structural and psychological concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of ethical alignment in Large Language Models by proposing a checks-and-balances framework with three components for knowledge generation, ethical guardrails, and contextual interpretation, and it demonstrates how emotional conditioning can modulate behaviors toward ethical outcomes.
This paper introduces a checks-and-balances framework for ethical alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs), inspired by three-branch governmental systems. It implements three independent yet interacting components: LLMs as the executive branch for knowledge generation, DIKE as the legislative branch establishing ethical guardrails, and ERIS as the judicial branch for contextual interpretation. Beyond structural separation, we address a fundamental challenge: regulating emotion to shape behaviors. Drawing from psychological theories where managing emotional responses prevents harmful behaviors, we develop a self-supervised learning pipeline that maps emotions to linguistic behaviors, enabling precise behavioral modulation through emotional conditioning. By integrating this approach with adversarial testing, our framework demonstrates how DIKE and ERIS direct linguistic behaviors toward ethical outcomes while preserving independence throughout knowledge generation, ethical oversight, and contextual interpretation.