Sydney Levine

According to our database, Sydney Levine authored at least 37 papers between 2015 and 2026.

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2026

PluriHarms: Benchmarking the Full Spectrum of Human Judgments on AI Harm.

Jing-Jing Li, Joel Mire, Eve Fleisig, Valentina Pyatkin, Anne Collins, Maarten Sap, Sydney Levine

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Full-Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value.

Joe Edelman, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Ryan Lowe, Oliver Klingefjord, Vincent Wang-Mascianica, Matija Franklin, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Ellie Hain, Atrisha Sarkar, Michiel A. Bakker, Fazl Barez, David Duvenaud, Jakob N. Foerster, Iason Gabriel, Joseph Gubbels, Bryce Goodman, Andreas Haupt, Jobst Heitzig, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, James Ravi Kirkpatrick, Andrew Koh, W. Bradley Knox, Philipp E. Koralus, Joel Lehman, Sydney Levine, Samuele Marro, Manon Revel, Toby Shorin, Morgan Sutherland, Michael Henry Tessler, Ivan Vendrov, James Wilken-Smith

CoRR, December, 2025

MoReBench: Evaluating Procedural and Pluralistic Moral Reasoning in Language Models, More than Outcomes.

Yu Ying Chiu, Michael S. Lee, Rachel Calcott, Brandon Handoko, Paul de Font-Reaulx, Paula Rodriguez, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Ziwen Han, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Yash Maurya, Christina Q. Knight, Harry R. Lloyd, Florence Bacus, Mantas Mazeika, Bing Liu, Yejin Choi, Mitchell L. Gordon, Sydney Levine

CoRR, October, 2025

Resource Rational Contractualism Should Guide AI Alignment.

Sydney Levine, Matija Franklin, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Secil Yanik Guyot, Lionel Wong, Daniel Kilov, Yejin Choi, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman, Seth Lazar, Iason Gabriel

CoRR, June, 2025

Will AI Tell Lies to Save Sick Children? Litmus-Testing AI Values Prioritization with AIRiskDilemmas.

Yu Ying Chiu, Zhilin Wang, Sharan Maiya, Yejin Choi, Kyle Fish, Sydney Levine, Evan Hubinger

CoRR, May, 2025

Hypothesis-Driven Theory-of-Mind Reasoning for Large Language Models.

Hyunwoo Kim, Melanie Sclar, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Lance Ying, Sydney Levine, Yang Liu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Yejin Choi

CoRR, February, 2025

Resource-Rational Virtual Bargaining for Moral Judgment: Toward a Probabilistic Cognitive Model.

Diego Trujillo, Mindy Zhang, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Sydney Levine

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2025

Investigating machine moral judgement through the Delphi experiment.

Liwei Jiang, Jena D. Hwang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Jenny T. Liang, Sydney Levine, Jesse Dodge, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Maxwell Forbes, Jack Hessel, Jonathan Borchardt, Taylor Sorensen, Saadia Gabriel, Yulia Tsvetkov, Oren Etzioni, Maarten Sap, Regina Rini, Yejin Choi

Nat. Mac. Intell., 2025

When Is It Acceptable to Break the Rules? Knowledge Representation of Moral Judgements Based on Empirical Data (Extended Abstract).

Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine, Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Iyad Rahwan, Francesca Rossi, Kartik Talamadupula, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Max Kleiman-Weiner

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2025

SafetyAnalyst: Interpretable, Transparent, and Steerable Safety Moderation for AI Behavior.

Jing-Jing Li, Valentina Pyatkin, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Liwei Jiang, Nouha Dziri, Anne Collins, Jana Schaich Borg, Maarten Sap, Yejin Choi, Sydney Levine

Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems.

Zhijing Jin, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Giorgio Piatti, Sydney Levine, Jiarui Liu, Fernando Gonzalez Adauto, Francesco Ortu, András Strausz, Mrinmaya Sachan, Rada Mihalcea, Yejin Choi, Bernhard Schölkopf

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

The trade-off between rule-based thinking and mutual benefit in tacit coordination.

Arthur Le Pargneux, Sydney Levine, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Fiery Cushman

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

I Know I Should: Normative Competence From Biology To AI.

Joel Z. Leibo, Sydney Levine, John Michael, Jordan Theriault, Luca Tummolini

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Can Language Models Reason about Individualistic Human Values and Preferences?

Liwei Jiang, Taylor Sorensen, Sydney Levine, Yejin Choi

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data.

Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine, Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Iyad Rahwan, Francesca Rossi, Kartik Talamadupula, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Max Kleiman-Weiner

Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., December, 2024

Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Yoshua Bengio, Nick Chater, Tobias Gerstenberg, Kate Larson, Sydney Levine, Melanie Mitchell, Iyad Rahwan, Bernhard Schölkopf, Igor Grossmann

CoRR, 2024

SafetyAnalyst: Interpretable, transparent, and steerable LLM safety moderation.

Jing-Jing Li, Valentina Pyatkin, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Liwei Jiang, Nouha Dziri, Anne G. E. Collins, Jana Schaich Borg, Maarten Sap, Yejin Choi, Sydney Levine

CoRR, 2024

Intuitions of Compromise: Utilitarianism vs. Contractualism.

Jared Moore, Yejin Choi, Sydney Levine

CoRR, 2024

Multilingual Trolley Problems for Language Models.

Zhijing Jin, Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Giorgio Piatti, Jiarui Liu, Fernando Gonzalez Adauto, Francesco Ortu, András Strausz, Mrinmaya Sachan, Rada Mihalcea, Yejin Choi, Bernhard Schölkopf

CoRR, 2024

Resource-rational moral judgment.

Sarah A. Wu, Xiang Ren, Tobias Gerstenberg, Yejin Choi, Sydney Levine

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Moral flexibility in applying queuing norms can be explained by contractualist principles and game-theoretic considerations.

Joshua P. White, Rahul Bhui, Fiery Cushman, Josh Tenenbaum, Sydney Levine

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Perceptions of Compromise: Comparing Consqequentialist and Conctractualist Accounts.

Jared Moore, Sydney Levine, Yejin Choi

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Who is responsible for collective action?

Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo, Shannon Wing, Sydney Levine, Josh Tenenbaum, Lionel Wong, Sofia Bonicalzi, Tobias Gerstenberg

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Neuro-Symbolic Models of Human Moral Judgment.

Joseph Kwon, Josh Tenenbaum, Sydney Levine

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties.

Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena D. Hwang, Sydney Levine, Valentina Pyatkin, Peter West, Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Kavel Rao, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maarten Sap, John Tasioulas, Yejin Choi

Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023

When it's not out of line to get out of line: Principles of universalizability, welfare, and harm.

Joseph Kwon, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Josh Tenenbaum, Sydney Levine

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

When to Make Exceptions: Exploring Language Models as Accounts of Human Moral Judgment.

Zhijing Jin, Sydney Levine, Fernando Gonzalez, Ojasv Kamal, Maarten Sap, Mrinmaya Sachan, Rada Mihalcea, Josh Tenenbaum, Bernhard Schölkopf

CoRR, 2022

When Is It Acceptable to Break the Rules? Knowledge Representation of Moral Judgement Based on Empirical Data.

Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine, Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Iyad Rahwan, Francesca Rossi, Kartik Talamadupula, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Max Kleiman-Weiner

CoRR, 2022

When to Make Exceptions: Exploring Language Models as Accounts of Human Moral Judgment.

Zhijing Jin, Sydney Levine, Fernando Gonzalez Adauto, Ojasv Kamal, Maarten Sap, Mrinmaya Sachan, Rada Mihalcea, Josh Tenenbaum, Bernhard Schölkopf

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Competing perspectives on building ethical AI: psychological, philosophical, and computational approaches.

Sydney Levine, Zhijing Jin

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Flexibility in Moral Cognition: When is it okay to break the rules?

Joseph Kwon, Josh Tenenbaum, Sydney Levine

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

Engineering and reverse-engineering morality.

Sydney Levine, Fiery Cushman, Iyad Rahwan, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2019

What if everybody did that?: Universalization as a mechanism of moral decision-making.

Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum, Fiery Cushman

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Blaming humans in autonomous vehicle accidents: Shared responsibility across levels of automation.

Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Sohan Dsouza, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan

CoRR, 2018

The Mental Representation of Human Action.

Sydney Levine, Alan M. Leslie, John Mikhail

Cogn. Sci., 2018

The Cognitive Mechanisms of Contractualist Moral Decision-Making.

Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Nicholas Chater, Fiery Cushman, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2015

Inference of Intention and Permissibility in Moral Decision Making.

Max Kleiman-Weiner, Tobias Gerstenberg, Sydney Levine, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015