Being Considerate as a Pathway Towards Pluralistic Alignment for Agentic AI
This addresses the challenge of ensuring AI agents respect varied human perspectives, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing alignment concepts without introducing a new method.
The paper tackles the problem of aligning AI systems with diverse human values by proposing that an agent's consideration for others' future wellbeing and agency can promote pluralistic alignment, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
Pluralistic alignment is concerned with ensuring that an AI system's objectives and behaviors are in harmony with the diversity of human values and perspectives. In this paper we study the notion of pluralistic alignment in the context of agentic AI, and in particular in the context of an agent that is trying to learn a policy in a manner that is mindful of the values and perspective of others in the environment. To this end, we show how being considerate of the future wellbeing and agency of other (human) agents can promote a form of pluralistic alignment.