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NF-VIRTUE Virtue-ethical

Source applies virtue ethics or character-based evaluation  theory

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Responsible Black Boxes: How Virtue Ethics Can Bridge the Responsibility Gap in AI (Palgr… · Hasse J. Hällström; Steven S. Gouveia · 2026

“we argue that virtue ethics (VE) rooted in Aristotle's account of stable character traits and phronesis (practical wisdom) presents a more robust [path to 'Responsible AI', even if the systems themselves remain (partly or entirely) unexplainable].”
why coded: Organisational virtue as the responsibility-gap bridge · unit #1, pp. 335

Artificial moral characters: constitutional AI and the challenge of alignment · Jörg Noller · 2026

“Like a moral novice, a CAI-trained model internalizes patterns of self-correction and moderation: it avoids harmful extremes, justifies its refusals, and displays what one might call mesotes-alignment—a learned balance between recklessness and excessive caution. In this sense, CAI does not merely enforce external rules; it cultivates internalized normative dispositions, forming what this paper calls an Artificial Moral Character (AMC).”
why coded: CAI dispositions as hexeis/mesotes-alignment - the virtue-ethics reading of alignment training · unit #1, pp. 3