Responsibility Gap in Collective Decision Making

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Main Authors: Naumov, Pavel, Tao, Jia
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Published: 2025
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author Naumov, Pavel
Tao, Jia
author_facet Naumov, Pavel
Tao, Jia
contents The responsibility gap is a set of outcomes of a collective decision-making mechanism in which no single agent is individually responsible. In general, when designing a decision-making process, it is desirable to minimise the gap. The paper proposes a concept of an elected dictatorship. It shows that, in a perfect information setting, the gap is empty if and only if the mechanism is an elected dictatorship. It also proves that in an imperfect information setting, the class of gap-free mechanisms is positioned strictly between two variations of the class of elected dictatorships.
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spellingShingle Responsibility Gap in Collective Decision Making
Naumov, Pavel
Tao, Jia
Computer Science and Game Theory
Artificial Intelligence
The responsibility gap is a set of outcomes of a collective decision-making mechanism in which no single agent is individually responsible. In general, when designing a decision-making process, it is desirable to minimise the gap. The paper proposes a concept of an elected dictatorship. It shows that, in a perfect information setting, the gap is empty if and only if the mechanism is an elected dictatorship. It also proves that in an imperfect information setting, the class of gap-free mechanisms is positioned strictly between two variations of the class of elected dictatorships.
title Responsibility Gap in Collective Decision Making
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06312