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Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Morality Attacks

arXiv 2604.17053 ↗First posted 18 Apr 2026cs.CLcited by 1

On the map: LLM safety and security → Safety alignment, refusal and guardrails

Abstract (arXiv)

Pluralism alignment with AI has the sophisticated and necessary goal of creating AI that can coexist with and serve morally multifaceted humanity. Research towards pluralism alignment has many efforts in enhancing the learning of large language models (LLMs) to accomplish pluralism. Although this is essential, the robustness of LLMs to produce moral content over pluralistic values is still under exploration.Inspired by the astonishing persuasion abilities via jailbreak prompts, we propose to leverage jailbreak attacks to study LLMs' internal pluralistic values. In detail, we develop a morality dataset with 10.3K instances in two categories: Value Ambiguity and Value Conflict. We further formalize four adversarial attacks with the constructed dataset, to manipulate LLMs' judgment over the morality questions. We evaluate both the large language models and guardrail models which are typically used in generative systems with flexible user input. Our experiment results show that there is a critical vulnerability of LLMs and guardrail models to these subtle and sophisticated moral-aware attacks.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Safety alignment, refusal and guardrails, one of 12 directions in LLM safety and security. Builds on 28 of its 41 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Apr 2026.

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