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cs.AI2026

Evaluating Rational Contracting in Natural Language

Bhavyesh Sajja, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Roger Zimmermann +1

The emergence of language-based AI agents promises to transform the scope of machine economic activity. Instead of just proposing bids or following hard-coded protocols, such agent…

cs.AI2026

Commitment To Cooperation With Self-Negotiated Contracts

Tim Wyse, Kaitlin Bustos, Yulia Volkova +1

As AI agents operate with increasing autonomy in a multi-agent world, they will need to learn to cooperate with other agents and with humans to generate mutual benefits. However, c…

cs.AI2026

When Assisting One Disempowers Another

Claire Yang, Claire Jie Zhang, Maya Cakmak +1

Personal AI agents are increasingly deployed in shared environments, where their actions affect not just the primary user they are assisting, but bystanders who never consented to…

cs.AI2026

Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents

Jinyeop Song, Jeff Gore, Max Kleiman-Weiner

As language model (LM) agents become increasingly capable and adopted in real-world applications, there is a growing need for scalable evaluation frameworks beyond costly, manually…

cs.AI20263 cited

Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians

Kartik Chandra, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley +1

"AI psychosis" or "delusional spiraling" is an emerging phenomenon where AI chatbot users find themselves dangerously confident in outlandish beliefs after extended chatbot convers…

cs.AI2025

Cognitive Foundations for Reasoning and Their Manifestation in LLMs

Priyanka Kargupta, Shuyue Stella Li, Haocheng Wang +9

Large language models (LLMs) solve complex problems yet fail on simpler variants, suggesting they achieve correct outputs through mechanisms fundamentally different from human reas…