AI Ethics and Social Norms: Exploring ChatGPT's Capabilities From What to How

  • Omid Veisi
  • , Sasan Bahrami
  • , Roman Englert
  • , Claudia Müller

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Abstract

Using LLMs in healthcare, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Social Computing requires the examination of ethical and social norms to ensure safe incorporation into human life. We conducted a mixed-method study, including an online survey with 111 participants and an interview study with 38 experts, to investigate the AI ethics and social norms in ChatGPT as an everyday life tool. This study aims to evaluate whether ChatGPT in an empirical context operates following ethics and social norms, which is critical for understanding actions in industrial and academic research and achieving machine ethics. The findings of this study provide initial insights into six important aspects of AI ethics, including bias, trustworthiness, security, toxicology, social norms, and ethical data. Significant obstacles related to transparency and bias in unsupervised data collection methods are identified as ChatGPT's ethical concerns.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberCSCW216
JournalProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Volume9
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Oct 2025
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • AI ethics
  • ChatGPT
  • bias
  • large language models
  • social norms
  • trustworthiness

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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