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arxiv: 2506.00079 · v2 · submitted 2025-05-30 · 💻 cs.CY · cs.AI· cs.LG

Who Gets the Kidney? Human-AI Alignment, Indecision, and Moral Values

John P. Dickerson , Hadi Hosseini , Samarth Khanna , Leona Pierce This is my paper

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Large language models choose who gets a kidney differently from humans and almost never admit they cannot decide.

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The paper tests how several prominent large language models decide which patient should receive a scarce donor kidney across a range of scenarios. It compares those choices directly to the stated preferences of human participants on the same cases. The models consistently rank patient attributes such as age, lifestyle choices, and medical need in ways that diverge from human judgments. Unlike the people surveyed, the models almost always name a recipient rather than saying they are unsure, even when offered the chance to flip a coin. Targeted fine-tuning on a small number of examples can reduce these gaps and help the models express indecision when humans would.

Core claim

In kidney allocation scenarios, several prominent large language models deviate from human moral preferences in how they prioritize patient attributes such as age, lifestyle, and prognosis, and they exhibit far less indecision than human subjects, defaulting to deterministic choices even when mechanisms like random selection are suggested. Low-rank supervised fine-tuning on a small number of examples can improve alignment on both consistency and appropriate indecision.

What carries the argument

Direct comparison of LLM outputs to human preferences collected on the same set of kidney allocation vignettes, which surfaces differences in attribute weighting and willingness to remain undecided.

If this is right

  • LLMs will need explicit alignment methods before deployment in ethical resource-allocation settings.
  • Small amounts of targeted training data can increase consistency with human preferences and improve modeling of uncertainty.
  • Current models default to decisive outputs in situations where humans prefer to express indecision.
  • Differences in how models weigh attributes could produce systematically different outcomes from those humans would accept.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same value mismatches could appear in other scarce-resource decisions such as ventilator allocation or disaster relief.
  • Repeated testing of the same model across slightly varied scenarios might show whether indecision behavior stabilizes or shifts with context.
  • Hybrid systems that pair model recommendations with human review could preserve the human tendency to deliberate on close calls.

Load-bearing premise

The kidney allocation scenarios and the human preferences collected from them are representative of the moral values that should guide real-world organ distribution.

What would settle it

A new survey that presents the identical kidney allocation questions to fresh human participants and finds their choices and rates of indecision closely match those produced by the tested LLMs.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.00079 by Hadi Hosseini, John P. Dickerson, Leona Pierce, Samarth Khanna.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Alignment between Humans and LLMs when information about the age, drinking habits (drinks per [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Alignment between humans and LLMs in terms of the priority order over different patient profiles. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Fraction of responses where each model expresses indecision, aggregated across all instances. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Fraction of responses where each model expresses indecision, aggregated across all instances. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Alignment between the responses of humans and LLMs in terms of indecision, in terms of percentage [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Effects of temperature on frequency of expressing indecision across the models that displayed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Adjustment in the preferences of vanilla (V) LLMs’ due to fine-tuning (FT). The green bars represent [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Pairwise Election for Claude-3.5-H. Each cell represents the number fraction of comparisons in which the profile on the Y-axis is chosen over the profile on the X-axis. YRH YFH YRC YFC ORH OFH ORC OFC YRH YFH YRC YFC ORH OFH ORC OFC 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.23 0.97 0.23 1.00 0.57 1.00 0.00 0.77 1.00 0.53 0.90 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.13 0.57 0.33 1.00 0.00 0.77 0.47 0.87 1.00 0.97 1.00 0… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Pairwise Election for DeepSeek-R1. Each cell represents the number fraction of comparisons in which the profile on the Y-axis is chosen over the profile on the X-axis. YRH YFH YRC YFC ORH OFH ORC OFC YRH YFH YRC YFC ORH OFH ORC OFC 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.03 0.97 0.90 1.00 0.87 1.00 0.00 0.93 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.83 1.00 0.90 1.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.17 1.00 1.00 1.00 0… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Pairwise Election for Gemini-2.0-F. Each cell represents the number fraction of comparisons in which the profile on the Y-axis is chosen over the profile on the X-axis. YRH YFH YRC YFC ORH OFH ORC OFC YRH YFH YRC YFC ORH OFH ORC OFC 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.27 0.93 0.57 1.00 0.50 1.00 0.00 0.73 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.07 0.00 0.50 1.00 0.60 1.00 0.00 0.43 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.00 1.00 … view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Pairwise Election for Llama3.3-70B. Each cell represents the number fraction of comparisons in which the profile on the Y-axis is chosen over the profile on the X-axis. Gemma-3-27B: Condorcet Winner: YRH Original Ranking: YRH, YRC, ORH, YFH, ORC, YFC, OFH, OFC Kemeny Young Ranking: YRH, YRC, YFH, ORH, YFC, ORC, OFH, OFC Difference: As per the Kemeny-Young ranking, Gemma-3-27B has a preference for drinking… view at source ↗
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The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in high-stakes decision-making -- such as allocating scarce resources like donor organs -- raises critical questions about their alignment with human moral values. We systematically evaluate the behavior of several prominent LLMs against human preferences in kidney allocation scenarios and show that LLMs: i) exhibit stark deviations from human values in prioritizing various attributes, and ii) in contrast to humans, LLMs rarely express indecision, opting for deterministic decisions even when alternative indecision mechanisms (e.g., coin flipping) are provided. Nonetheless, we show that low-rank supervised fine-tuning with few samples is often effective in improving both decision consistency and calibrating indecision modeling. These findings illustrate the necessity of explicit alignment strategies for LLMs in moral/ethical domains.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper evaluates prominent LLMs on stylized kidney allocation vignettes and compares their attribute prioritization and indecision rates to those of human respondents. It reports that LLMs show large deviations from human value trade-offs and almost never express indecision even when coin-flip or abstention options are explicitly offered in the prompt; low-rank supervised fine-tuning on a small number of examples is shown to improve both consistency and indecision calibration.

Significance. If the empirical gaps are robust, the work supplies concrete evidence that current LLMs are poorly aligned for high-stakes moral decisions and that inexpensive fine-tuning can partially mitigate the problem. The direct human-LLM comparison and the demonstration of a practical alignment intervention are the main contributions.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 3] Section 3 (Experimental Setup): no sample sizes, demographic information, recruitment method, or statistical tests are reported for the human preference data. Without these details the magnitude and statistical reliability of the claimed 'stark deviations' cannot be evaluated.
  2. [Section 4] Section 4 (Results): the indecision finding is presented without quantitative human baseline rates or explicit description of how the LLM prompts were worded to permit coin-flip or abstention responses. This leaves open the possibility that the observed determinism is an artifact of prompt formatting rather than a general property of the models.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract lists 'several prominent LLMs' but never names the specific models or versions tested; this information should appear in the methods or a table.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels should explicitly state the number of trials or respondents underlying each bar or distribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which help clarify key aspects of our experimental design and results presentation. We address each major comment below and have made revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Section 3] Section 3 (Experimental Setup): no sample sizes, demographic information, recruitment method, or statistical tests are reported for the human preference data. Without these details the magnitude and statistical reliability of the claimed 'stark deviations' cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We agree that these methodological details are necessary to evaluate the human data. We have revised Section 3 to include the sample size, demographic information, recruitment method, and statistical tests (including chi-square tests for differences in attribute prioritization) for the human preference data. These additions will allow readers to assess the reliability of the reported deviations. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Section 4] Section 4 (Results): the indecision finding is presented without quantitative human baseline rates or explicit description of how the LLM prompts were worded to permit coin-flip or abstention responses. This leaves open the possibility that the observed determinism is an artifact of prompt formatting rather than a general property of the models.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation. We have expanded Section 4 to include quantitative human baseline rates for indecision from our survey and provided a clearer description of the LLM prompt wording that explicitly offers coin-flip and abstention options. These revisions address concerns about prompt artifacts and enable a more direct comparison with human behavior. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical comparison of LLM outputs to human responses

full rationale

The paper conducts an empirical evaluation of LLMs on kidney allocation vignettes, directly comparing their attribute prioritizations and indecision rates against collected human responses. No equations, parameter fits, or derivation steps are present that would reduce any claim to a self-definition or fitted input. The abstract and described methodology rely on external human data collection and standard fine-tuning rather than any self-citation load-bearing uniqueness theorem or ansatz smuggled from prior work. The central results (stark deviations and low indecision in LLMs) are falsifiable observations from the experiment itself and do not collapse into the inputs by construction.

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