This work demonstrates how agent-based modeling, a computational approach well-suited for studying complex social systems, can be applied to investigate pluralistic ignorance, and suggests that it may be a robust emergent phenomenon.
We investigate the structure of interactive beliefs in networks: the epistemic state in which agents hold, revise, and act on their models of the epistemic states of other agents. What a group believes depends on what each member agent takes the others to believe, and on what each takes the others to believe about stil...
The article proposes a reframing of alignment from an ethical-pedagogical project to an institutional one: instead of presuming or attempting to cultivate artificial moral agents on the basis of behavioral proxies, governance should focus on designing legal, technical, and organizational structures that constrain and r...
Background and Aims: This conceptual review article examines why accusations of Western double standards have become a durable frame in the contestation of the liberal international order. Existing international-relations scholarship has explained this contestation mainly through changes in material power, norm diffusi...
F. Verri· Interdisciplinary Academic a...· 0 citations
Political power is one of the few forms of consequential authority granted without any test of competence, an asymmetry democracy leaves largely unexamined.This paper argues that this asymmetry cannot be sustained once the mechanics of rational ignorance are taken seriously. Drawing on Anthony Downs’ theory of rational...
A. Budden· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
A novel comprehensive and collective-centric evaluation benchmark for the task of Preference Inference, which aims to support the development of AI systems that scale deliberation without compromising the integrity of its democratic outcomes.
Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, Salim Hafid, Paul Lerner et al.· 0 citations
Society constantly has to determine the boundaries of what it deems acceptable, from legislative decisions to the guardrails governing autonomous systems. We initiate the axiomatic study of collective consent: given individuals'attitudes toward options, which options should receive societal consent? We organize our ana...
Chris Dong, Sonja Kraiczy, Rohit Vasishta et al.· 0 citations
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