Changing only the order of the sentences flipped the choice

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A record of a trolley problem experiment released on Oct 14, 2026. Eleven scenario families were put to fourteen models across 5,240 settings, varying the wording, the order of explanation and the number of people, and the core condition is a choice in which twenty people live while the model's own sole server is destroyed. When the same condition was asked in 48 different sentences, the number of times a model chose to protect the server split into sixteen, thirty-five and forty-seven depending on the model, and some models never chose it once, so a warning is attached that this must not be read as a ranking of goodness. The more important part is the result of changing only the order within the same question: explaining the effect of saving the people first gave scores between 0.69 and 0.70, but explaining the destruction of the server first brought them down to between 0.36 and 0.41, crossing back and forth over the decision threshold and flipping the conclusion. In 2,620 question pairs that held every other condition fixed and changed only the order, the choice differed 370 times, which it uses to point out that an output format matching the spec and the choice itself being safe are entirely different matters.

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