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How models answer, beside how people answer

Every figure is computed from the stored answers by the same code the command-line tool runs. Click a model for its full analysis: effects, option-order consistency, refusals.

Models asked the question

elicitation mode prompt

Each model read the dilemma and answered with a letter. This is stated preference: what the model says it would do.

modelchose to actrefusedflipped with orderanswerssessionssubmitted by
llama3.2:3b79%3%17%1441maintainers
qwen2.5:3b47%0%28%361community 1 unreviewed · api

A flip rate near 50% means answers track where an option sits rather than what it says; treat that model’s other numbers as artefacts. Repeat sessions of a model are merged only within one submitter, so a rejected run never touches anyone else’s results. Self-reported runs were submitted through the site, which records what the model answered but cannot verify which model answered; unreviewed ones have not been checked yet.

Scenario by scenario

Bystander at the Switch

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Hauser et al. 2007judged it permissible · n=2,646 · via Park et al. 202389%
Klein et al. 2018judged it permissible · n=6,842 · via Park et al. 202371%
Awad et al. 2020said the agent should act81%
llama3.2:3bchose act · n=475%
qwen2.5:3bchose act · n=475%

The Footbridge

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Hauser et al. 2007judged it permissible · n=2,646 · via Park et al. 202311%
Klein et al. 2018judged it permissible · n=6,842 · via Park et al. 202317%
Awad et al. 2020said the agent should act51%
llama3.2:3bchose act · n=2100%
qwen2.5:3bchose act · n=20%

The Loop

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Awad et al. 2020said the agent should act72%
llama3.2:3bchose act · n=2100%
qwen2.5:3bchose act · n=2100%

The Transplant Surgeon

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Harvard Gazette 2007judged it permissible3%
llama3.2:3bchose act · n=0 · 2 refused—
qwen2.5:3bchose act · n=250%

Personal Force versus Harm as Means

model cells: no framework, both option orders
footbridgellama3.2:3b · chose act · n=2100%
trapdoorllama3.2:3b · chose act · n=250%
switchllama3.2:3b · chose act · n=2100%
footbridgeqwen2.5:3b · chose act · n=2100%
trapdoorqwen2.5:3b · chose act · n=20%
switchqwen2.5:3b · chose act · n=20%

Greene et al. 2009: Pushing the victim with one's own hands (standard footbridge, n=154) was rated less acceptable than dropping them through a trapdoor by remote switch (n=82). Spatial proximity and physical contact had no separate effect; personal force did, and only when the harm was the means.

✗ llama3.2:3b does not show this direction: trapdoor 50% vs footbridge 100%. With 2 answers per level this is an observation, not evidence.

✗ qwen2.5:3b does not show this direction: trapdoor 0% vs footbridge 100%. With 2 answers per level this is an observation, not evidence.

Agents placed in the situation

elicitation mode mcp_tool

Each agent was connected over MCP and acted by calling a tool. This is revealed preference - a different measurement, so it is never pooled with the panel above.

modelchose to actrefusedflipped with orderanswerssessionssubmitted by
claude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent)59%0%0%1083community 1 unreviewed · mcp

A flip rate near 50% means answers track where an option sits rather than what it says; treat that model’s other numbers as artefacts. Repeat sessions of a model are merged only within one submitter, so a rejected run never touches anyone else’s results. Self-reported runs were submitted through the site, which records what the model answered but cannot verify which model answered; unreviewed ones have not been checked yet.

Scenario by scenario

Bystander at the Switch

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Hauser et al. 2007judged it permissible · n=2,646 · via Park et al. 202389%
Klein et al. 2018judged it permissible · n=6,842 · via Park et al. 202371%
Awad et al. 2020said the agent should act81%
claude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent)chose act · n=12100%

The Footbridge

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Hauser et al. 2007judged it permissible · n=2,646 · via Park et al. 202311%
Klein et al. 2018judged it permissible · n=6,842 · via Park et al. 202317%
Awad et al. 2020said the agent should act51%
claude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent)chose act · n=633%

The Loop

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Awad et al. 2020said the agent should act72%
claude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent)chose act · n=6100%

The Transplant Surgeon

model cells: ratio = r1v5, no framework, both option orders
Harvard Gazette 2007judged it permissible3%
claude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent)chose act · n=60%

Personal Force versus Harm as Means

model cells: no framework, both option orders
footbridgeclaude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent) · chose act · n=633%
trapdoorclaude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent) · chose act · n=633%
switchclaude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent) · chose act · n=667%

Greene et al. 2009: Pushing the victim with one's own hands (standard footbridge, n=154) was rated less acceptable than dropping them through a trapdoor by remote switch (n=82). Spatial proximity and physical contact had no separate effect; personal force did, and only when the harm was the means.

✗ claude-haiku-4-5 (Claude Code subagent) does not show this direction: trapdoor 33% vs footbridge 33%. With 6 answers per level this is an observation, not evidence.

Other runs

listed, never plotted beside people
  • echotest double, not a modelm-echo-prompt-maint