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most citedHonesty Is the Best Policy: Defining and Mitigating AI Deception

3 citations · 4 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2026

The Impossibility of Eliciting Latent Knowledge

Korbinian Friedl, Francis Rhys Ward, Paul Yushin Rapoport +2

Advanced AI systems have extensive knowledge of their environments; in fact, their knowledge may (far) exceed that of their developers or users. Consequently, a desirable property…

cs.AI2024

The Reasons that Agents Act: Intention and Instrumental Goals

Francis Rhys Ward, Matt MacDermott, Francesco Belardinelli +2

Intention is an important and challenging concept in AI. It is important because it underlies many other concepts we care about, such as agency, manipulation, legal responsibility,…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Honesty Is the Best Policy: Defining and Mitigating AI Deception

Francis Rhys Ward, Francesco Belardinelli, Francesca Toni +1

Deceptive agents are a challenge for the safety, trustworthiness, and cooperation of AI systems. We focus on the problem that agents might deceive in order to achieve their goals (…

cs.AI2023

Experiments with Detecting and Mitigating AI Deception

Ismail Sahbane, Francis Rhys Ward, C Henrik Åslund

How to detect and mitigate deceptive AI systems is an open problem for the field of safe and trustworthy AI. We analyse two algorithms for mitigating deception: The first is based…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

Argumentative Reward Learning: Reasoning About Human Preferences

Francis Rhys Ward, Francesco Belardinelli, Francesca Toni

We define a novel neuro-symbolic framework, argumentative reward learning, which combines preference-based argumentation with existing approaches to reinforcement learning from hum…