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Fair Like Us? Auditing LLM Alignment in Resource Allocation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

Fair allocation of scarce, indivisible resources is an important challenge in many societal problems. While there are several formal theories of fairness, no single definition can always be satisfied. As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support decisions and act as agents, they raise new concerns about distributional justice: their judgments are not directly tied to any specific fairness framework and may violate key normative principles. In this work, we introduce a general method for evaluating fairness reasoning in LLMs. We study first-person fairness judgments across a

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