2025/02/02 by Samarth Swarup, Swarup, Samarth · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.00648
openalex publication_date 2025/02/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
There is significant concern about the impact of generative AI on society. Modern AI tools are capable of generating ever more realistic text, images, and videos, and functional code, from minimal prompts. Accompanying this rise in ability and usability, there is increasing alarm about the misuses to which these tools can be put, and the intentional and unintentional harms to individuals and society that may result. In this paper, we argue that agency is the appropriate lens to study these harms and benefits, but that doing so will require advancement in the theory of agency, and advancement in how this theory is applied in (agent-based) models.