{"pk":24483,"title":"Perceptions of Compromise: Comparing Consqequentialist and Conctractualist Accounts","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We are constantly faced with the question of how to aggregate preferences, views, perspectives and values.  This is a problem for groups attempting to accommodate individuals with differing needs and interests, as will be our focus. The problem of ``value aggregation'' therefore crops up in myriads of places across the social sciences---in rational decision theory, social choice models, and proposals for systems of democratic voting, for instance. These sub-disciplines have formalized proposals for how to deal with value aggregation, though, remarkably, no research has yet directly compared people's intuitions of two of the most obvious candidates for aggregation--taking the sum of all the values (the classic ``Utilitarian'' approach) and the product (a less well-known ``contractualist'' approach).\nIn this paper, we systematically explore the proposals suggested by each algorithm, focusing on aggregating preferences across groups. We find that both humans and performant LLMs prefer a contractualist approach.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Artificial Intelligence; Decision making; Social cognition; Large Language Models; Survey"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qb7g0vk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jared","middle_name":"","last_name":"Moore","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sydney","middle_name":"","last_name":"Levine","name_suffix":"","institution":"Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence","department":""},{"first_name":"Yejin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Choi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24483/galley/21446/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24483/galley/14080/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24483/galley/21446/download/"}]}