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Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents
Aman Priyanshu, Supriti Vijay, Brian Jabarian +1
Personal AI agents make recommendations and take actions on people's behalf in high-stakes economic contexts, e.g., buying a flight, choosing health insurance, or selecting a gradu…
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…
GUIDE: Generative Utility Inference and Decision Engine
Anagha Tiwari, Alexander G. Gray, Nick Feamster +3
Measuring the preferences of human users remains a fundamental challenge of AI alignment. Existing elicitation approaches struggle to efficiently discover multidimensional preferen…
Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews
Brian Jabarian, Luca Henkel
We study AI agents as information-collection technologies: automated systems that elicit decision-relevant signals from humans through live interactions. We test how such AI automa…
Critical Thinking Via Storytelling: Theory and Social Media Experiment
Brian Jabarian, Elia Sartori
In a stylized voting model, we establish that increasing the share of critical thinkers -- individuals who are aware of the ambivalent nature of a certain issue -- in the populatio…
A Two-Ball Ellsberg Paradox: An Experiment
Brian Jabarian, Simon Lazarus
We conduct an incentivized experiment on a nationally representative US sample \\ (N=708) to test whether people prefer to avoid ambiguity even when it means choosing dominated opt…