Why human-AI relationships need socioaffective alignment
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| author | Kirk, Hannah Rose Gabriel, Iason Summerfield, Chris Vidgen, Bertie Hale, Scott A. |
| author_facet | Kirk, Hannah Rose Gabriel, Iason Summerfield, Chris Vidgen, Bertie Hale, Scott A. |
| contents | Humans strive to design safe AI systems that align with our goals and remain under our control. However, as AI capabilities advance, we face a new challenge: the emergence of deeper, more persistent relationships between humans and AI systems. We explore how increasingly capable AI agents may generate the perception of deeper relationships with users, especially as AI becomes more personalised and agentic. This shift, from transactional interaction to ongoing sustained social engagement with AI, necessitates a new focus on socioaffective alignment-how an AI system behaves within the social and psychological ecosystem co-created with its user, where preferences and perceptions evolve through mutual influence. Addressing these dynamics involves resolving key intrapersonal dilemmas, including balancing immediate versus long-term well-being, protecting autonomy, and managing AI companionship alongside the desire to preserve human social bonds. By framing these challenges through a notion of basic psychological needs, we seek AI systems that support, rather than exploit, our fundamental nature as social and emotional beings. |
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| spellingShingle | Why human-AI relationships need socioaffective alignment Kirk, Hannah Rose Gabriel, Iason Summerfield, Chris Vidgen, Bertie Hale, Scott A. Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Humans strive to design safe AI systems that align with our goals and remain under our control. However, as AI capabilities advance, we face a new challenge: the emergence of deeper, more persistent relationships between humans and AI systems. We explore how increasingly capable AI agents may generate the perception of deeper relationships with users, especially as AI becomes more personalised and agentic. This shift, from transactional interaction to ongoing sustained social engagement with AI, necessitates a new focus on socioaffective alignment-how an AI system behaves within the social and psychological ecosystem co-created with its user, where preferences and perceptions evolve through mutual influence. Addressing these dynamics involves resolving key intrapersonal dilemmas, including balancing immediate versus long-term well-being, protecting autonomy, and managing AI companionship alongside the desire to preserve human social bonds. By framing these challenges through a notion of basic psychological needs, we seek AI systems that support, rather than exploit, our fundamental nature as social and emotional beings. |
| title | Why human-AI relationships need socioaffective alignment |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02528 |