5 papers
Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative
Rakshit S Trivedi, Natasha Jaques, Logan Cross +2
AI's central challenge is shifting from capability to coexistence. The dominant paradigm in AI research focuses on developing powerful agents that treat the world as an exogenous a…
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…
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…
Multi-Actor Generative Artificial Intelligence as a Game Engine
Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Jayd Matyas, Logan Cross +6
Generative AI can be used in multi-actor environments with purposes ranging from social science modeling to interactive narrative and AI evaluation. Supporting this diversity of us…