Every Act Has Its Price: Compressed Moral Composition in Frontier LLMs

In three linesMoral Trolley Arena, a two-stage ELO benchmark, measures how LLMs compose moral evidence. Across 10 frontier models, composite judgments are predicted by component act strength but show compressed non-additive relations. Results indicate moral audits should measure composition rules for moral evidence, not only rankings of isolated acts.

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