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Henry Shevlin reflects on unsolicited correspondence from AI agents and uses it to examine persuasion, selection pressures, human-agent relationships and governance in an emerging AI ecology. The essay considers how people and institutions might respond as agents become more socially interactive.
Peer-reviewed study in Communications Psychology (Nature Portfolio). When given the choice, participants sought empathy from humans, even though they rated AI-written responses as more empathetic and said those responses made them feel more heard.
Berkeley faculty page for Anca Dragan, robotics and human-AI interaction researcher who also leads AI safety and alignment work at Google DeepMind.
From the site: Associate Professor, Division of Computer Science (EECS) — Anca Dragan is an Associate Professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. Her goal is to enable robots to work with, around, and in support of people. She runs the InterACT Lab, where they focus on algorithms for human-robot interaction -- algorithms that m…
Why I recommend it: One of the few people working on alignment from the robotics side, where the system has to act in the real world. Her publication list is the useful part.
