Nudging Using Autonomous Agents: Risks and Ethical Considerations
<|reference_start|>Nudging Using Autonomous Agents: Risks and Ethical Considerations: This position paper briefly discusses nudging, its use by autonomous agents, potential risks and ethical considerations while creating such systems. Instead of taking a normative approach, which guides all situations, the paper proposes a risk-driven questions-and-answer approach. The paper takes the position that this is a pragmatic method, that is transparent about beneficial intentions, foreseeable risks, and mitigations. Given the uncertainty in AI and autonomous agent capabilities, we believe that such pragmatic methods offer a plausibly safe path, without sacrificing flexibility in domain and technology.<|reference_end|>
@article{nallur2024nudging,
    title={Nudging Using Autonomous Agents: Risks and Ethical Considerations},
    author={Vivek Nallur and Karen Renaud and Aleksei Gudkov},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16362},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.16362},
    primaryClass={cs.CY}
}