Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties
Paper · 2023 · Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena Hwang et al.
Summary
AI systems trained on aggregated labels tend to average away real disagreements between legitimate human values, such as honesty versus loyalty to a friend. This paper tests how well language models can represent such plural considerations explicitly. The authors used GPT-4, through symbolic knowledge distillation, to build ValuePrism, a corpus of contextualized values, rights, and duties attached to real situations written by people. They checked its quality with crowdworkers from varied demographic backgrounds. On this data they trained Value Kaleidoscope (Kaleido), an open multi-task model with four tasks:
- generating relevant considerations,
- judging whether a consideration is relevant,
- classifying valence (supports, opposes, or depends on context),
- explaining how a consideration bears on an action.
The KaleidoSys pipeline overgenerates candidates, filters them by relevance, and removes near-duplicates. Annotators judged its output more accurate and more complete than GPT-4's, even though GPT-4 was the teacher. Kaleido also helps explain why people disagree on ambiguous decisions and transfers to other ethical frameworks. The work offers an interpretable, modular basis for value-aware AI.
Key points
- ValuePrism: about 218k values, rights, and duties linked to roughly 31k human-written situations. Annotators rated the GPT-4 outputs high-quality in 91% of cases and found missing considerations in under 1% of situations.
- Model release: Kaleido comes in 5 sizes (e.g.,
allenai/kaleido-xl) on Hugging Face, with code and a demo. Access is restricted to research use on request. - KaleidoSys workflow: generates 100 candidates per situation, keeps those Kaleido rates as relevant, deduplicates by text similarity, and then scores relevance and valence.
- Coverage of human rights: ValuePrism contains matches for 97.5% of the 41 rights the authors extracted from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, retrieved via WANLI entailment and checked by hand.
- Sensitivity and false balance: Kaleido shifts its relevance and valence scores when small details of a situation change. In a test on 20 hand-written clearly good or clearly bad actions, it produced no contrived supporting or opposing values.
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Cite as Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena Hwang, Sydney Levine, Valentina Pyatkin, Peter West, Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Kavel Rao, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maarten Sap, John Tasioulas and Yejin Choi. 2023. Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties. arXiv:2309.00779 · Vol. 38 No. 18: AAAI-24 Technical Tracks 18; 2024; 19937-19947.
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title = {{Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties}},
author = {Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena Hwang, Sydney Levine, Valentina Pyatkin, Peter West, Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Kavel Rao, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maarten Sap, John Tasioulas and Yejin Choi},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1609/aaai.v38i18.29970},
eprint = {2309.00779},
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