Group ethical discussion with multiple LLM agents significantly increases ethical sensitivity in STEM undergraduates¶

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q2 i3 Pre-post paired t-tests showed statistically significant gains in both ethical issue awareness and ethical consequence reasoning after a structured group discussion with LLM agents. → Seo 2026

Evidence¶

Seo 2026¶

Seo, Y., Jang, S., Park, H., Gutierrez, R. S., Seering, J., & Lee, U. (2026). Ethics Training Agents: Facilitating Group-Based Ethics Education with Role-Playing and Discussion for Ethical Reflection and Exploration. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11529 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.11529

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Pre-post paired t-tests in a user study with 45 undergraduate STEM students across 15 groups showed statistically significant gains in both ethical sensitivity sub-constructs, with "large effect sizes (Cohen’s𝑑 = 1.43 for awareness, Cohen’s𝑑 = 1.28 for reasoning)". Wilcoxon signed-rank tests corroborated the results.

"Results from the pre-post paired𝑡-tests demonstrated statistically significant gains across both sub-constructs of ethical sensitivity (𝑝 < .001), with large effect sizes (Cohen’s𝑑 = 1.43 for awareness, Cohen’s𝑑 = 1.28 for reasoning)"

Discussion¶

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