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This research introduces PrinciplismQA, a new benchmark that evaluates large language models on clinical medical ethics using philosophy-grounded frameworks rather than just factual accuracy. The study reveals significant gaps in ethical reasoning among current models despite their high knowledge scores, providing essential tools for assessing AI readiness before clinical deployment.
PrinciplismQA: A Philosophy-Grounded Approach to Assessing LLM-Human Clinical Medical Ethics Alignment
arXiv:2508.05132v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As medical LLMs transition to clinical deployment, assessing their ethical reasoning capability becomes critical. While achieving high accuracy on knowledge benchmarks, LLMs lack validated assessment for navigating ethical trade-offs in clinical decision-making where multiple valid solutions exist. Existing benchmarks lack systematic approaches to incorporate recognized philosophical frameworks and expert validation for ethical reasoning assessment. We introduce PrinciplismQA, a philosophy-grounded approach to assessing LLM clinical medical ethics alignment. Grounded in Principlism, our approach provides a systematic methodology for incorporating clinical ethics philosophy into LLM assessment design. PrinciplismQA comprises 3,648 expert-validated questions spanning knowledge assessment and clinical reasoning. Our expert-calibrated pipeline enables reproducible evaluation and models ethical biases. Evaluating recent models reveals significant ethical reasoning gaps despite high knowledge accuracy, demonstrating that knowledge-oriented training does not ensure clinical ethical alignment. PrinciplismQA provides a validated tool for assessing clinical AI deployment readiness. Our data and test scripts are fully released on https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/PrinciplismQA.
Abstract:As medical LLMs transition to clinical deployment, assessing their ethical reasoning capability becomes critical. While achieving high accuracy on knowledge benchmarks, LLMs lack validated assessment for navigating ethical trade-offs in clinical decision-making where multiple valid solutions exist. Existing benchmarks lack systematic approaches to incorporate recognized philosophical frameworks and expert validation for ethical reasoning assessment. We introduce PrinciplismQA, a philosophy-grounded approach to assessing LLM clinical medical ethics alignment. Grounded in Principlism, our approach provides a systematic methodology for incorporating clinical ethics philosophy into LLM assessment design. PrinciplismQA comprises 3,648 expert-validated questions spanning knowledge assessment and clinical reasoning. Our expert-calibrated pipeline enables reproducible evaluation and models ethical biases. Evaluating recent models reveals significant ethical reasoning gaps despite high knowledge accuracy, demonstrating that knowledge-oriented training does not ensure clinical ethical alignment. PrinciplismQA provides a validated tool for assessing clinical AI deployment readiness. Our data and test scripts are fully released on this https URL.
Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2508.05132 [cs.CL]
(or arXiv:2508.05132v3 [cs.CL] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.1806 DOI(s) linking to related resources
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