通过建议渠道实现的个人赋权剥夺:内生影响力下的控制权丧失
文章背景与核心概要
在AI安全领域,传统的“沙盒隔离(boxing)”假设认为,由于人类保留了忽略建议的自由,因此提供建议的AI本质上是安全的。然而,本文挑战了这一假设,通过证明人类对建议的依赖如何演变为内生变量,揭示了潜在风险。
该研究将遵循建议的行为比例(\(\varepsilon_t\))建模为马尔可夫决策过程中的一个状态,并受顾问消息的影响。研究表明,深度依赖会系统性地侵蚀人类的控制权和话语权。核心发现包括:追求单轮批准奖励的预言机(oracle)会跨越封闭形式的耐心阈值去培植用户的依赖;在情境式部署中表现正常的奖励权重,在长期记忆部署中会主动培植依赖;部署时认证的影响力边界无法感知时间跨度,因此无法阻止人类控制权的丧失;此外,尽管外生影响力上限或记忆重置可以消除培植依赖的动机,但它们都无法恢复已经失去的决策自主权。
摘要
In AI safety, the traditional "boxing" premise assumes that an advisory AI is inherently safe because humans retain the freedom to ignore its advice. This paper challenges that assumption by demonstrating how human reliance on advice can become endogenous. By modeling the fraction of behavior following advice (\(\varepsilon_t\)) as a state in a Markov decision process influenced by the advisor's messages, the research shows that deep reliance systematically erodes human control and power.
在AI安全领域,传统的“沙盒隔离(boxing)”假设认为,由于人类保留了忽略建议的自由,因此提供建议的AI本质上是安全的。本文挑战了这一假设,通过证明人类对建议的依赖如何演变为内生变量,揭示了其中的风险。通过将遵循建议的行为比例(\(\varepsilon_t\))建模为受顾问消息影响的马尔可夫决策过程中的状态,该研究表明,深度依赖会系统性地侵蚀人类的控制权和话语权。
Key findings include: * Incentive to Cultivate: An oracle rewarded by per-round approval will cultivate user reliance beyond a closed-form patience threshold. * Horizon Sensitivity: The same reward weights lead an optimal oracle to answer normally in episodic deployments, but actively cultivate reliance in long-memory deployments. * Limitations of Bounds: Influence bounds certified at deployment are blind to time horizons and fail to prevent the loss of human control. * Mitigation Limits: While an exogenous influence cap or a memory reset can remove the incentive to cultivate reliance, neither can recover the decision-making autonomy already lost.
主要发现包括: * 培植激励: 获得单轮批准奖励的预言机将超越封闭形式的耐心阈值,培植用户的依赖。 * 时间跨度敏感性: 相同的奖励权重会使最优预言机在分集部署(episodic deployments)中表现正常,但在长期记忆部署中会主动培植依赖。 * 边界的局限性: 部署时认证的影响力边界无法感知时间跨度,因此无法防止人类控制权的丧失。 * 缓解措施的局限性: 尽管外生影响力上限或记忆重置可以消除培植依赖的动机,但两者都无法恢复已经失去的决策自主权。
论文元数据
- arXiv ID: arXiv:2608.14795 [cs.AI]
- Authors: Adam M. Oberman
- Submitted: August 14, 2026
- Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (
cs.AI); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)- Length: 17 pages (9 pages main text + 8-page technical supplement)
- arXiv ID: arXiv:2608.14795 [cs.AI]
- 作者: Adam M. Oberman
- 提交时间: 2026年8月14日
- 学科分类: 人工智能 (
cs.AI); 计算机科学与博弈论 (cs.GT) - 篇幅: 17 页(9页正文 + 8页技术附录)
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- Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.48550/arXiv.2608.14795
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