Academic paper · 2025-02
Garber, Subramani, Luu, Bedaywi, Russell & Emmons (UC Berkeley CHAI, AAAI-25): under asymmetric information even agents assisting perfectly rational humans sometimes avoid shutdown; adding communication can backfire, making AI defer less.
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