Responsibility Gap in Collective Decision Making

2025/05/08 by Pavel Naumov, Naumov, Pavel, Tao, Jia · 2 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Decision Sciences · Computer Science · #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Game Theory and Applications #Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.06312

Abstract

The responsibility gap is a set of outcomes of a collective decision-making mechanism in which no single agent is individually responsible. In general, when designing a decision-making process, it is desirable to minimise the gap. The paper proposes a concept of an elected dictatorship. It shows that, in a perfect information setting, the gap is empty if and only if the mechanism is an elected dictatorship. It also proves that in an imperfect information setting, the class of gap-free mechanisms is positioned strictly between two variations of the class of elected dictatorships.

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