7 papers
A Roadmap to Impactful Pluralistic Alignment Research
Elinor Poole-Dayan, Jillian Fisher, Atoosa Kasirzadeh +3
Pluralistic value alignment---the goal of building AI systems that represent and serve diverse human values and perspectives---has emerged as an active research agenda. Yet, there'…
Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI: The Need for a Preparedness Plan
Maximilian Negele, Daan Juijn, Afek Shamir +8
Artificial general intelligence (AGI)--defined here as AI systems that match or exceed humans at most economically useful cognitive work--has moved from speculation to the centre o…
Multi-User Large Language Model Agents
Shu Yang, Shenzhe Zhu, Hao Zhu +5
Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed as assistants in planning and decision making, yet most existing systems are implicitly optimized for a…
AI and Collective Decisions: Strengthening Legitimacy and Losers' Consent
Suyash Fulay, Prerna Ravi, Emily Kubin +3
AI is increasingly used to scale collective decision-making, but far less attention has been paid to how such systems can support procedural legitimacy, particularly the conditions…
AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
Grace Liu, Brian Christian, Tsvetomira Dumbalska +2
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the o…
Agora: Teaching the Skill of Consensus-Finding with AI Personas Grounded in Human Voice
Prerna Ravi, Om Gokhale, Suyash Fulay +3
Deliberative democratic theory suggests that civic competence: the capacity to navigate disagreement, weigh competing values, and arrive at collective decisions is not innate but d…