5 papers
The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement
Tom Cunningham, Lukas Althoff, Basil Halperin +6
We model the economics of recursive self-improvement (RSI) and assess its plausibility and impacts. First, we build a sequence of increasingly rich models of AI progress to highlig…
Mechanism Design for Alignment and Control
Dirk Bergemann, Andrew Koh, Stephen Morris
We develop a framework for mechanism design with AI agents whose alignment (preferences) and capabilities (feasible actions and information) are unknown. We want such agents to act…
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…
An Economy of AI Agents
Gillian K. Hadfield, Andrew Koh
In the coming decade, artificially intelligent agents with the ability to plan and execute complex tasks over long time horizons with little direct oversight from humans may be dep…
Flexible Demand Manipulation
Yifan Dai, Andrew Koh
We develop a simple framework to analyze how targeted persuasive advertising shapes market power and welfare. A designer flexibly manipulates the demand curve by influencing indivi…