7 papers
AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation
Benjamin Lange
Advanced AI assistants engage users in extended interactions across a widening range of roles, including advice, decision support, collaboration, learning, emotional support, and c…
Unilateral Relationship Revision Power in Human-AI Companion Interaction
Benjamin Lange
When providers update AI companions, users report grief, betrayal, and loss. A growing literature asks whether the norms governing personal relationships extend to these interactio…
Epistemic Trust as a Mechanism for Ethics Integration: Failure Modes and Design Principles from 70 Moral Imagination Workshops
Benjamin Lange, Geoff Keeling, Kyle Pedersen +4
Bottom-up responsible innovation initiatives seek to empower technology development teams to engage in ethical reflection, yet such interventions frequently fail to achieve practit…
We Need Accountability in Human-AI Agent Relationships
Benjamin Lange, Geoff Keeling, Arianna Manzini +1
We argue that accountability mechanisms are needed in human-AI agent relationships to ensure alignment with user and societal interests. We propose a framework according to which A…
Epistemic Deference to AI
Benjamin Lange
When should we defer to AI outputs over human expert judgment? Drawing on recent work in social epistemology, I motivate the idea that some AI systems qualify as Artificial Epistem…
Evaluating Intra-firm LLM Alignment Strategies in Business Contexts
Noah Broestl, Benjamin Lange, Cristina Voinea +2
Instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as AI Assistants in firms for support in cognitive tasks. These AI assistants carry embedded perspectives w…