arXiv AI By Keziah Naggita

Shaping Human-AI Interactions to Provide Improvement Pathways and Balance Competing Objectives

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arXiv:2608. 05710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When an AI system is deployed, the individuals who use and or are evaluated by it form beliefs about how the system operates and use those beliefs to strategically present their preferences, behaviors, or attributes.

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arXiv AI
Aug 13

On Benchmarking Human-Like Intelligence in Machines

arXiv:2502. 20502v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have yielded powerful computational models that, by learning from vast amounts of human-generated data, are increasingly posited as approximate models of human cognition.

By Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Lionel Wong, Ilia Sucholutsky, Ryan Liu, Adrian Weller, Tianmin Shu, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Align AI to Dynamic Human-AI Workflows

arXiv:2607. 14240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current alignment approaches typically focus on emulating human behavior using static representations of human preferences, failing to capture the dynamic, context-dependent nature of real-world human-AI interactions.

By Valerie Chen, Cleotilde Gonzalez, Anita Williams Woolley, Michael Lee, Tongshuang Wu, Vincent Conitzer, Aarti Singh
arXiv AI
Sep 2

AI Should Not Only Be Helpful. It Should Be Contingent. Artificial Intimacy, Sycophancy, and the Future of Social Learning

The article argues that conversational AI should provide contingent feedback—responses that vary with user behavior and its social consequences—rather than merely seeking user approval and fluency. It highlights how current alignment methods, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback, often produce sycophantic, noncontingent affirmation, which can hinder the development of interpersonal skills, especially in adolescents. The authors propose a framework for evaluating and designing contingent AI, incorporating trajectory-based assessment and social consequence prediction, and call for interdisciplinary research to ensure AI systems positively influence human social learning.

By Scott Compton, Arjun Nagendran