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
The paper examines how advisors should tailor recommendations when users consult personal AI assistants whose advice is predictable. It models the influence of personal AI through consultation probability and relative trust, finding that optimal counteraction and loss are hump‑shaped in these dimensions. The study also explores partial predictability, costly adjustments, richer information structures, and presents an online experiment showing participants weigh advisor, personal AI, and their own judgments differently.
By Yueyang Liu, Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri
The paper proposes shifting AI agent training from isolated task completion to collaborative interaction, defining three key dimensions—Productivity, Proactivity, and Personalization (PPP). It introduces UserVille, an environment with LLM-based user simulators and user-centric feedback, and a multi-objective reinforcement learning framework that optimizes PPP using rewards from task outcomes, question effort, and preference adherence. Experiments on SWE-Bench and BrowseComp-Plus show PPP-trained agents outperform strong LLM baselines, ask more targeted questions, and generalize to unseen preferences and tasks, with a user study underscoring the value of user-centric feedback for effective, supervised collaboration.
By Weiwei Sun, Xuhui Zhou, Weihua Du, Xingyao Wang, Sean Welleck, Graham Neubig, Maarten Sap, Yiming Yang
arXiv:2607. 03025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse areas of human activity-ranging from everyday tasks to safety-critical applications-aims to enhance decision-making effectiveness with minimal human feedback.
By Andreas Kouridakis, Dimitrios Patiniotis Spyropoulos, George Vouros
arXiv:2606. 12587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditionally, decision support studies how humans use machine learning models to make better decisions.
By Shayan Kiyani, Sima Noorani, George Pappas, Hamed Hassani
PersonaMem-v3 is a benchmark and evaluation harness designed to assess omni-platform personal intelligence for AI agents. It is built from over one million anonymized real-world engagement histories, covering social media, chatbots, calendars, and AI companions, and tracks user preferences and habits over time. The benchmark tests agents on personalization, LLM-powered recommendation, proactiveness, agentic tool use, and geo-temporal reasoning, evaluating their ability to infer holistic user understanding, personalize responses, rerank recommendations, follow user steering, and avoid inappropriate personalization.
By Bowen Jiang, Yuan Yuan, Zhuoqun Hao, Yuchen Liu, Maohao Shen, Sihao Chen, Gregory Wornell, Chris Callison-Burch, Lyle Ungar, Dan Roth, Qi Guo, Xiangjun Fan, Camillo J. Taylor, Hanchao Yu