2 papers
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.RO2025
Preserving Sense of Agency: User Preferences for Robot Autonomy and User Control across Household Tasks
Claire Yang, Heer Patel, Max Kleiman-Weiner +1
Roboticists often design with the assumption that assistive robots should be fully autonomous. However, it remains unclear whether users prefer highly autonomous robots, as prior w…