title: Role-Play with Large Language Models
summary: As dialogue agents become increasingly human-like in their performance, it is
  imperative that we develop effective ways to describe their behaviour in
  high-level terms without falling into the trap of anthropomorphism. In this
  paper, we foreground the concept of role-play. Casting dialogue agent behaviour
  in terms of role-play allows us to draw on familiar folk psychological terms,
  without ascribing human characteristics to language models they in fact lack.
  Two important cases of dialogue agent behaviour are addressed this way, namely
  (apparent) deception and (apparent) self-awareness.
paper_authors._id: 647419aca7f23affe778b1c8
paper_authors.name: Murray Shanahan
paper_authors._id: 647419aca7f23affe778b1c9
paper_authors.name: Kyle McDonell
paper_authors._id: 647419aca7f23affe778b1ca
paper_authors.name: Laria Reynolds
paper_title: Role-Play with Large Language Models
paper_summary: As dialogue agents become increasingly human-like in their performance, it is
  imperative that we develop effective ways to describe their behaviour in
  high-level terms without falling into the trap of anthropomorphism. In this
  paper, we foreground the concept of role-play. Casting dialogue agent behaviour
  in terms of role-play allows us to draw on familiar folk psychological terms,
  without ascribing human characteristics to language models they in fact lack.
  Two important cases of dialogue agent behaviour are addressed this way, namely
  (apparent) deception and (apparent) self-awareness.
paper_ai_keywords: role-play deception self-awareness