10 papers
Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change
Jayd Matyas, William A. Cunningham, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets +3
Attitude change - the process by which individuals revise their evaluative stances - has been explained by a set of influential but competing verbal theories. These accounts often…
Persona Generators: Generating Diverse Synthetic Personas for Arbitrary Contexts
Davide Paglieri, Logan Cross, William A. Cunningham +2
Evaluating AI systems that interact with humans requires understanding their behavior across diverse user populations, but collecting representative human data is often expensive o…
Analysis of Optimality of Large Language Models on Planning Problems
Bernd Bohnet, Michael C. Mozer, Kevin Swersky +4
Classic AI planning problems have been revisited in the Large Language Model (LLM) era, with a focus of recent benchmarks on success rates rather than plan efficiency. We examine t…
A Theory of Appropriateness That Accounts for Norms of Rationality
Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Manfred Diaz +10
We propose a society-first theory of normative appropriateness where individuals, modeled as pre-trained actors with cognitive architectures analogous to Large Language Models (LLM…
A Generative Model of Conspicuous Consumption and Status Signaling
Logan Cross, Jordi Grau-Moya, William A. Cunningham +2
Status signaling drives human behavior and the allocation of scarce resources such as mating opportunities, yet the generative mechanisms governing how specific goods, signals, or…
A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood
Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, William A. Cunningham +1
The emergence of agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to trigger a "Cambrian explosion" of new kinds of personhood. This paper proposes a pragmatic framework for navigating…