In September 2026, an empirical study published on arXiv for the first time compared the differences in moral agency perception between humans and large language models (LLMs) among different embodied autonomous agents (AAs) in intelligent city scenarios. The study involved 190 human participants and various LLMs. The results showed that humans’ perception of AAs as moral agents was significantly lower than their perception of themselves. However, when faced with specific moral dilemmas, LLMs tended to reason based on the severity of harm and situational urgency, rather than making stable evaluations of the agents themselves. This situational sensitivity characteristic was highly consistent with human judges’ assessments. Given that LLMs are increasingly involved in daily moral decision-making, these findings are considered highly relevant.