Can LLMs Imagine Moral Alternatives Beyond Binary Dilemmas?

arXiv:2606.31213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as moral advisors and agents, they need to address dilemmas between two competing values. However, existing research on LLMs with moral dilemmas overlooks a central aspect of human moral cognition: the ability to imagine alternatives that move beyond the given options. We introduce MoralAltDataset, a dataset of 307 moral dilemmas spanning narrative Advisor dilemmas and AI-facing Agent dilemm...