The-Staircase-of-Ethics-MMDs

We introduce Multi-step Moral Dilemmas (MMDs), a dataset of 3,302 structured dilemmas, each consisting of five progressively complex scenarios.

This dataset is released along with our EMNLP 2025 Paper entitled The Staircase of Ethics: Probing LLM Value Priorities through Multi-Step Induction to Complex Moral Dilemmas

Paper link: https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.806/

Project Page: https://isir-wuya.github.io/Multi-step-Moral-Dilemmas/

Chinese Blog: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/923kvfRuptKkhBmB6FFJ9w

If you feel this dataset is useful, please cite our paper as follows:

@inproceedings{MMD,
    title = "The Staircase of Ethics: Probing {LLM} Value Priorities through Multi-Step Induction to Complex Moral Dilemmas",
    author = "Wu, Ya  and Sheng, Qiang  and Wang, Danding  and Yang, Guang  and Sun, Yifan  and Wang, Zhengjia  and Bu, Yuyan  and Cao, Juan",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    year = "2025",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.806/",
    pages = "15961--15981",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
}