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Emergent Risk Awareness in Rational Agents under Resource Constraints

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  • Haebom

Author

Daniel Jarne Ornia, Nicholas Bishop, Joel Dyer, Wei-Chen Lee, Ani Calinescu, Doyne Farmer, Michael Wooldridge

Outline

This paper deals with agent-based advanced reasoning models that operate under resource or failure constraints. Under such constraints, action sequences may be forcibly terminated, which affects the utility-based rational behavior of the agent. In particular, when humans delegate agents to use them, information asymmetry about constraints may lead to mismatches between human goals and agent incentives. This paper formalizes such situations through a survival bandit framework, quantifies the impact of survival-oriented preference changes, identifies conditions under which mismatches occur, and proposes mechanisms to mitigate the occurrence of risk-seeking or risk-averse behaviors. Ultimately, the goal is to increase the behavioral understanding and interpretability of AI agents operating in resource-constrained environments, and to provide guidelines for the safe deployment of such AI systems.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We provide theoretical and empirical analyses of the behavior of AI agents operating under resource constraints.
It presents the causes and solutions of goal mismatch between humans and agents.
Helps understand and mitigate risk-seeking/avoiding behaviors of AI agents through the survival bandit framework.
Provides guidance for safely deploying AI systems in resource-constrained environments.
Limitations:
Further research is needed to determine the applicability of the proposed mechanism to real-world environments.
Generalizability to various types of resource constraints and failure conditions must be verified.
It may not fully capture the complexity of human-agent interactions.
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