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    "pk": 50417,
    "title": "When Empowerment Disempowers in Multi-Agent Assistance",
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    "abstract": "People can assist others even without knowledge of their specific goals. However,\nthis ability remains a challenge for artificial intelligence, limiting the development\nof assistive technologies. This issue is particularly important in caregiving, where\nrather than focusing on helping with a particular task, one may aim to improve the\nbroad autonomy of the care recipient. One promising approach to care that does not\nrequire goal inference is to maximize the empowerment of another. Empowerment\nis a computational measure of one's ability to control their environment. Prior\nwork on empowerment assumes one-to-one interactions, overlooking the fact\nthat assistive technologies are often deployed in multi-agent environments that\nmay include caregivers or family members. Here, we show that optimizing for\none person's empowerment may inadvertently disempower others. Finally, we\ndevelop and test multi-agent extensions of empowerment that enable an assistant\nto empower one person without harming another.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Intelligent agents; Computational Modeling"
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    ],
    "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mt6b86j",
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        {
            "first_name": "Claire",
            "middle_name": "Y",
            "last_name": "Yang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Washington",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Maya",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cakmak",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Washington",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Max",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kleiman-Weiner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Washington",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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