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Autori principali: Jones, Steven J., Wray, Robert E., Laird, John E.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10952
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author Jones, Steven J.
Wray, Robert E.
Laird, John E.
author_facet Jones, Steven J.
Wray, Robert E.
Laird, John E.
contents Deployed, autonomous AI systems must often evaluate multiple plausible courses of action (extended sequences of behavior) in novel or under-specified contexts. Despite extensive training, these systems will inevitably encounter scenarios where no available course of action fully satisfies all operational constraints (e.g., operating procedures, rules, laws, norms, and goals). To achieve goals in accordance with human expectations and values, agents must go beyond their trained policies and instead construct, evaluate, and justify candidate courses of action. These processes require contextual "knowledge" that may lie outside prior (policy) training. This paper characterizes requirements for agent decision making in these contexts. It also identifies the types of knowledge agents require to make decisions robust to agent goals and aligned with human expectations. Drawing on both analysis and empirical case studies, we examine how agents need to integrate normative, pragmatic, and situational understanding to select and then to pursue more aligned courses of action in complex, real-world environments.
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spellingShingle Requirements for Aligned, Dynamic Resolution of Conflicts in Operational Constraints
Jones, Steven J.
Wray, Robert E.
Laird, John E.
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.11
Deployed, autonomous AI systems must often evaluate multiple plausible courses of action (extended sequences of behavior) in novel or under-specified contexts. Despite extensive training, these systems will inevitably encounter scenarios where no available course of action fully satisfies all operational constraints (e.g., operating procedures, rules, laws, norms, and goals). To achieve goals in accordance with human expectations and values, agents must go beyond their trained policies and instead construct, evaluate, and justify candidate courses of action. These processes require contextual "knowledge" that may lie outside prior (policy) training. This paper characterizes requirements for agent decision making in these contexts. It also identifies the types of knowledge agents require to make decisions robust to agent goals and aligned with human expectations. Drawing on both analysis and empirical case studies, we examine how agents need to integrate normative, pragmatic, and situational understanding to select and then to pursue more aligned courses of action in complex, real-world environments.
title Requirements for Aligned, Dynamic Resolution of Conflicts in Operational Constraints
topic Artificial Intelligence
I.2.11
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10952