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most citedThe Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

51 citations · 71 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

Tailored to you: longitudinal effects of personalising language models

Canfer Akbulut, Justine Breuch, Arianna Manzini +6

Interest in developing personalised language models is rapidly growing. While personalisation is often viewed as a mechanism to better serve diverse user needs, the effects of sust…

cs.AI2026

Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing

Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Chloé Bakalar +13

Existing alignment research is dominated by concerns about safety and preventing harm: safeguards, controllability, and compliance. This paradigm of alignment parallels early psych…

cs.AI2026

Architecting Trust in Artificial Epistemic Agents

Nahema Marchal, Stephanie Chan, Matija Franklin +5

Large language models increasingly function as epistemic agents -- entities that can 1) autonomously pursue epistemic goals and 2) actively shape our shared knowledge environment.…

cs.LG2025

Full-Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning AI and Institutions with Thick Models of Value

Joe Edelman, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Ryan Lowe +30

Beneficial societal outcomes cannot be guaranteed by aligning individual AI systems with the intentions of their operators or users. Even an AI system that is perfectly aligned to…

cs.AI2025

Virtual Agent Economies

Nenad Tomasev, Matija Franklin, Joel Z. Leibo +4

The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents is giving rise to a new economic layer where agents transact and coordinate at scales and speeds beyond direct human oversight. We propos…

cs.AI2025

Resource Rational Contractualism Should Guide AI Alignment

Sydney Levine, Matija Franklin, Tan Zhi-Xuan +8

AI systems will soon have to navigate human environments and make decisions that affect people and other AI agents whose goals and values diverge. Contractualist alignment proposes…

cs.MA2025★ 10 cited

Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI

Lewis Hammond, Alan Chan, Jesse Clifton +41

The rapid development of advanced AI agents and the imminent deployment of many instances of these agents will give rise to multi-agent systems of unprecedented complexity. These s…

econ.GN2025

AI Governance through Markets

Philip Moreira Tomei, Rupal Jain, Matija Franklin

This paper argues that market governance mechanisms should be considered a key approach in the governance of artificial intelligence (AI), alongside traditional regulatory framewor…

cs.CY2024★ 51 cited

The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini, Geoff Keeling +54

This paper focuses on the opportunities and the ethical and societal risks posed by advanced AI assistants. We define advanced AI assistants as artificial agents with natural langu…

cs.CY2024★ 9 cited

A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI

Seliem El-Sayed, Canfer Akbulut, Amanda McCroskery +17

Recent generative AI systems have demonstrated more advanced persuasive capabilities and are increasingly permeating areas of life where they can influence decision-making. Generat…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

An International Consortium for Evaluations of Societal-Scale Risks from Advanced AI

Ross Gruetzemacher, Alan Chan, Kevin Frazier +11

Given rapid progress toward advanced AI and risks from frontier AI systems (advanced AI systems pushing the boundaries of the AI capabilities frontier), the creation and implementa…