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Record W2963086506 · doi:10.1145/3306618.3314250

Incomplete Contracting and AI Alignment

2019· article· en· W2963086506 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicLaw, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoVector Institute
Fundersnot available
KeywordsParallelsIncomplete contractsCore (optical fiber)Computer scienceWork (physics)Principal (computer security)Focus (optics)ReplicateManagement scienceEconomic analysisData scienceArtificial intelligenceEconomicsMicroeconomicsOperations managementEngineeringComputer security

Abstract

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We suggest that the analysis of incomplete contracting developed by law and economics researchers can provide a useful framework for understanding the AI alignment problem and help to generate a systematic approach to nding solutions. We rst provide an overview of the incomplete contracting literature and explore par- allels between this work and the problem of AI alignment. As we emphasize, misalignment between principal and agent is a core fo- cus of economic analysis. We highlight some technical results from the economics literature on incomplete contracts that may provide insights for AI alignment researchers. Our core contribution, how- ever, is to bring to bear an insight that economists have been urged to absorb from legal scholars and other behavioral scientists: the fact that human contracting is supported by substantial amounts of external structure, such as generally available institutions (culture, law) that can supply implied terms to ll the gaps in incomplete contracts. We propose a research agenda for AI alignment work that focuses on the problem of how to build AI that can replicate the human cognitive processes that connect individual incomplete contracts with this supporting external structure.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.783
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

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Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it